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["Jason Chall" <shaggychall AT yahoo.com>]

The reason I said similar is because I have tried several different loadlin
commands. What I listed previously is exactly what I am using currently. I
got -v from loadlin's help output. It's not giving me anything useful. My
target is definately hda, the system is a little funny since BL doesn't
recognize the SSD. Yes I boot first into DOS from the SSD which loads linux
with the HD partition as root. More evidence that hda is the hard drive,
linux calls it such when the kernel is booting, plus if I boot from the BL
floppy and I use CTRL to specify hd root=/dev/hda1 it boots with no
complaints. I'm pretty sure this is right. If I use hdb1 I get a kernel
panic error saying it can't mount the root file system. I don't get this
error using hda1, and like I said, BL boots fine except asking for the
ramdisk floppy which I simply bypass using ENTER. As an alternative
approach, is it possible to install LILO from a DOS floppy (since LINUX
won't recognize SSD) to the SSD.

Jason

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Subject: Re: [BL] Booting HD installation with loadlin


Jason Chall wrote:
>
> I just put something similar to the following

Similar is not good enough.  We need to know
exactly what you put in.

> loadlin zimage -v root=/dev/hda1 rw

I notice you are using a debug parameter (-v).
Where did you get that?  Is it giving you output?

Are you sure your target is /dev/hda1 ?
It appears that your current partition
(bootable DOS) is /dev/hda1.

> I put loadlin on the 8MB SSD

So that's what boots first?  in DOS?
Unless your system is unusual, that's probably
/dev/hda1.  Your loadlin target partition (root=)
will be somewhere else.  /dev/hdb1 ?  /dev/hdc1 ?

> Why does loadlin expect a ramdisk floppy.

That's what happens when there is no target partition
(root=) or there's a syntax error in the loadlin line.
That's why we need to see exactly what you put in.

Cheers,
Steven

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