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["Richard Shaw" <shawrichard AT hotmail.com>]

I've download the DOS version of BasicLinux 3.21

My 486 has a Future Domain TMC-8XX/TMC-950 SCSI drive controller,
and a seagate drive so I need to use the seagate kernel with loadlin.

(I found this out through reading the slackware kernel docs, and using 
loadin with the big scsi kernal, which reports the TMC-8XX/TMC-950)

So the normal boot.bat is:

loadlin zimage root=/dev/loop0 initrd=initfs.gz rw

so now I have

loadlin bzimage max_scsi_luns=0 root=/dev/loop0 initrd=initfs.gz rw

If I don't use max_scsi_luns it will try to reset the scsi forever and never 
move on.

Durying loading I see the display of the IRQ and base address and it 
bringing up the TMC-8XX/TMC-950 details on screen.

I don't see any mention of sd1a or anything like that on the screen.

And then /baslin/fs.img not found on mount /dev/hda1

OK, at this point it seems to be asking me for the mount point and I can 
enter /dev/sda1 ..sdd4
and then it will try using the mount poiunt I've set and fail with the 
/baslin/fs,img not found on /mount /dev/sda1 or whatever I entered.

What am I doing wrong, am I setting up loadlin incorrectly or should I be 
replacing initfs.gz with some other file from slackware 7.1

Thankyou in advance for your replies.

Richard Shaw
shawrichard AT hotmail.com

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