Re: [TCLUG:2449] Boot from hard drive using NT bootloader?

[Sandipan Panigrahi <pani@frontiernet.net>]

using loadlin as I refreshed my memory is quite simple.
Locate the loadlin executable it is in my CDROM in the /dosutils
directory in the RedHat dist.

1. Copy loadlin to dos partition
2. copy the kernel you use to the same partion. 
   Boot in linux 
   cd /boot
   #if you have the mtools 
   mcopy vmlinuz.... A: 
   #else if no mtools available 
   mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
   cp vmlinuz... /mnt/floppy/vmlinuz
3. Locate where the root partion is 
   df : should display the device that is used by "/" /dev/hdb??
4. Boot into DOS in that partion. This can be the MSDOS that is
   supplied with Win95.
5. copy the vmlinuz from the floppy to the same drive.
6. loadlin vmlinuz root="/dev/hdb?" 
    or whatever is your root directory.
   You can pass whatever other parameters you need to pass to loadlin
   the same as what you pass through lilo.

And you should be booting into linux from here on.

regards,
sandipan

Gordon Pedersen wrote:
> 
> I'm pretty sure that LILO documentation tells how to place a boot
> filesystem in 5MB or less, with kernel on another filesystem, including
> another disk.  Think about how a floppy boot system has to work....
> 
> But your dos/loadlin idea sounds easier overall; i've never done that so
> if you get it working would you post how you configured it?
> 
> gordon
>