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Re: Loadlin
Hi,
I have no idea what your problem might be, but I think it's not related
to loadlin 1.5.
I have a system in which hda and hdb are all dos/windoze, and hdc all
linux. I'm using loadlin 1.5 to boot linux and had no problems whatsoever
with this setup.
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Regards,
Gilad.
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Gilad Gam email: gilad@vocaltec.com
VocalTec Ltd. phone: 972-9-525823
On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, Ira Abramov wrote:
>
> Loadlin 1.5, the version most popular on all the current distributions,
> apperently has no support for hdc and hdd.
>
> I tryed to install Linux yesterday on a VX board, P133, hda is all DOS,
> and HDC is all Linux. floppyless installation of RH 3.0.3 worked fine
> (only I was sad to be reminded that Adaptec AHA-1510 isn't supported),
> i.e. I had the sb mounted, hcd partitioned, formatted and installed
> smoothly, but loadlin couldn't be set to have it as root (only hda/hdb
> supported, said the manual), and Lilo got stuck at "LI"
>
> disk 1 is a Seagate 850, Primary/master
> disk 2 is WD 1280, Secondery/master
> both LBA, all should have gone smoothly, at least with LILO, but also
> loadlin. what gives?
>
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References:
- Loadlin
- From: Ira Abramov <ira@scso.com>