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> I have two hard drives with Window$ on the first one, Red Hat
> 5.1 on the second. I want to boot to Linux with loadlin instead of a
> floppy, but I can't figure out how to put a kernel (vmlinuz) on my
> root DOS directory.
You don't need to put it on the root dir. It should be "in the same
directory as your loadlin.exe file".
> I have read all the docs on this and I thought I
> was doing everything right, but still no luck. Win/DOS will not read
> a Linux floppy, and I can't seem to mount my DOS drive (hda).
You don't mount a "drive" (hda) but a "partition" (like "/dev/hda1")
see "man mount" for details. Take special care of the fs option :
"msdos" means "pure" msdos fs (file names limited to 8.3)
"vfat" means the win95/98 fs (long filenames approximately supported)
> Any thoughts?
A "linux.bat" file in you dos path might facilitate switching over.
You can even install multiple kernels like this :
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rem
rem Loadlin <kernel_image> root=<root device> ro|rw
rem
rem Other information may need to be passed to the kernel through
Loadlin.
rem See llmanual.txt included with this file for more information.
rem
rem (installation sur quantum 2.1, vmlinuz=vmlinuz-2.0.30)
rem c:\loadlin\LOADLIN.EXE c:\loadlin\vmlinuz2030 root=/dev/hdb4 ro
rem
rem (installation sur seagate 2.1, vmlinuz=vmlinuz-2.0.34)
c:\loadlin\LOADLIN.EXE c:\loadlin\vmlinuz2034 root=/dev/hdc1 ro
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