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Re: loadlin
David Resnick writes:
> But guess what? I still can't do what I'm trying to do. The whole reason
> that I wanted to boot using loadlin was so that I could get into linux
> with my PnP soundcard initialized. Now, when I run loadlin with the
> soundcard initialized, the computer boots. When the soundcard is not
> initialized, linux boots up just fine.
Don't torture yourself -- your distribution must have included a
package of utilities named "isapnptools". It's a set of two programs
used to initialize PnP devices under Linux. Just use them to
initialize Linux, and boot Linux with lilo. It's faster and more
robust.
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Alex Shnitman
alexsh@linux.org.il UIN 188956
http://members.xoom.com/alexsh -- PGP key here
http://www.debian.org -- and the OS here