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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
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