On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 22:36 -0800, drew wymore wrote: > 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
I'm leery of installing lilo because I have a Linux system I don't want to mess up on another hard drive, a parallel ATA hard drive actually. The system I'm studying this for is a PII 300 that runs freedos and uses loadlin to load Slackware 10.1. I installed XOSL to that system where lilo would possibly create a conflict. As far as kernel panic or stack trace before reboot, it reboots too fast so I have no idea. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
