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

Alright got it working. I installed the loop file version onto the small HD.
Then i ran the install routine to install BL on the big HD. I then copied
the zimage and hd.bat from the big HD to a floppy. Rebooted into DOS and
copied the aforementioned files to the SSD and made hd.bat my autoexec.bat
and it worked. The loadlin line in hd.bat was the same as what I was using
before except it said hdb1 which I had to change to hda1 once I disconnected
the small HD. The problem must have been the kernel image I was using.
Thanks to everyone for all the help. BTW BL3 seems to have no problem
recognizing the whole 80 GB. Hopefully I'll have no problems with samba.

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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