On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Michael Robinson <[email protected]>wrote:
> Has anyone gotten this to work? > > I have a serial ATA drive I wasn't using, so I decided > to install freedos 1.0 in the first 500 megs and use > the rest of the drive to install Slackware 13. I was > lazy, I told setup to install everything. Obviously, > I didn't set lilo up because I intend to use loadlin. > > Which kernel exactly do I need from the /boot directory > on my slackware partition? I am not running an smp box. > I see generic and I see huge. > > The problem I'm running into is that loadlin fires up and > the kernel decompresses followed by the system resetting > and booting back into freedos. I installed freedos with > just the base group plus gem. Do I need to use the load > without drivers option in freedos or do I need himem and > emm386? > > What I'm after is seeing how Slackware 13 works before I > go and try to squeeze it onto a 4 gig scsi hard drive > replacing Slackware 10.1. I need to make sure that the > Realtek 8180L pci card on that box will work among other > things. > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > Why not just use Lilo? It certainly provide a lot less headaches. Huge is the the kernel Pat recommends for default installs. Generic doesn't include as many of the modules IIRC but you'll need to decompress and read the config file for the kernel. Do you get a kernel panic or stack trace before it reboots and freaks out? Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
