>On Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 06:08:05PM -0500, Robert Hailman wrote:
>> Hello. I have Linux on hard drive 4 (hdd2 is the root partion), so using
>> LILO isn't possible. I decided to go with LOADLIN, but it doesn't work. When
>> I try to boot, it freezes while loading the kernel. I am using the version
>> of Vmlinuz that the install program uses, but without the initrd.img file.
>> Do I need initrd.img, or is it a problem with the copy of Vmlinuz I am
>> using? If so, where can I find the proper version.
>
> Since your root partition is on an IDE disk (hdd), you don't need
>initrd.img. You should be able to do "loadlin.exe vmlinuz root=/dev/hdd2 ro".
>It's hard to tell what's going on without some more detail. For instance,
>does it print any message before it freezes?
>
> Greg Whittier
It shows the loadlin initialization messages about buffers and stuff, but
nothing about booting Linux... It just freezes when it SHOULD be booting
linux...
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