No, it should be able to boot from a dos partition - I have tried it and it works. Could you try to make a boot diskette and boot with that diskette and the CD on another PC? - i.e. to see if there is some problem with your PC or with diskette/CD.FYI,
loadlin will only work if you are using a "true" MSDOS prompt.
Example of a true MSDOS prompt:
Booting from a DOS disk (MSDOS 6.22 or older) Booting from a Windows 95/98 boot floppy Booting into MSDOS mode in Windows 95/98/98SE
The following are NOT a true MSDOS prompt: Opening an MSDOS window inside Windows 95/98/98SE/ME Opening a command prompt windows inside Windows NT/2000/XP
Hope this helps.if somebody is interested, i run damnsmall with loadlin, using using this sequence in a bat file
and the miniroot and vmlinuz in the same directory that loadlin..
but the only condition is to boot into msdos w95 w98, command line..
using this way, i can test each new compilation of damnsmall without write a cd,Sorry I'm replying a bit infrequently... Yeah I'm booting (or trying to) from "true" DOS, so that's not a problem. I 'm going to try what you suggested skaos, and see if that helps.
As far as I can see I'm pretty much doing what danini is doing, but I still doesn't seem to work.
Quote (skaos @ June 17 2004,06:28)
You should have the following files in the d:\knoppix directory (or is it d:\dsl?, assuming that hda2 is d:): loadlin.exe vmlinuz miniroot.gz KNOPPIX
Then use: loadlin vmlinuz initrd=miniroot.gz
I'm trying to get DSL to boot on a ThinkPad 760XL. The CD isn't bootable, and I can't use the CD and floppy concurrently. I have all those files in c:\dsl, copied from a CF card in the PCMCIA slot. When I try
loadlin vmlinuz initrd=miniroot.gz
I see "Uncompressing Linux...", followed by
Invalid compression format (Err=1)
System halted...
I grabbed loadlin.exe from Slackware 10. Any ideas? The machine is pretty much a brick as a Windows box, but it would make a decent thin client for the rest of my network.Next Page...
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