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Re: loadlin



I was trying to use isapnptools, the problem is that it couldn't detect
my soundcard. If the device isn't found by the utility, the docs say to
do a loadlin boot from DOS after the soundcard has been initialized.

I've done a bit more research, and it seems that my soundcard (Ensonic
AudioPCI) is not supported by the 2.0.x kernel. That's OK, though. It
gives me a good excuse to get the 2.2 kernel as soon as it's released
;-).

	David

Alex Shnitman wrote:
> 
> 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
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