run: mkbootdisk /dev/fd0 /boot/vmlinuz
On Fri, 02 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> I have used loadlin before for booting from DOS/Windows as an emergency
> solution if lilo was wiped out ( other linux distributions) but when I
> tried the same thing for Mdk-7 I get the response from loadlin that
> the file I specified is not an image file. The file was a copy of
> vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdkfb in the linux /boot directory that I copied to
> the mounted DOS partition where I named it vmlinuz. I then exe the
> file " loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro " Loadlin complains then that
> the file is not an image file. The vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdkfb is the one I
> boot from LILO so I know its OK in the linux world.
>
> The thing that concerns me is that the file is a large kernel
> 640+kb. Loadlin doesn't complain about memory or anything other than
> it not being an image file. I've read the loadlin.txt manual and HOWTOs
> on the web and couldn't find answers
>
> IF that doesn't work, is there any shortcut to run the part of
> the install script that asks " do you want to make a bootdisk". I can
> just make several and hope to find one at a bad time :)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim Pendley
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
