cbagger01
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Posted: Sep. 27 2004,22:48 |
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FYI,
If your computer is capable of using a "bootable" USB drive like most newer Dells, you don't need USB DOS support because the BIOS will emulate your USB drive as if it was a "C:\" drive in DOS.
See this post for more details:
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....8;st=20
Also, I read that the FreeDOS kernel (build 2028) has a bug inside that can corrupt data when writing to a FAT32 disk partition. So if you use the Dell USB FreeDOS boot utility it would be a good idea to visit the FreeDOS download page and update your kernel.sys (might as well do the command.com too) to a newer version of the file.
Below is my linux.par parameter file that is used for loadlin:
| Code Sample | # EDIT THIS BEFORE USING !
#
# this is an example commandline parameter file for LOADLIN
# You may have comments starting with "#" at any place
# comments end at end of a line
# any number of empty lines may be inserted.
# The contents are compacted by LOADLIN to produce an as small
# commandline as possible.
# For more commandline options see the file PARAMS.DOC.
#
# There can only be one parameter file and LOADLIN must be called as:
# LOADLIN @param_file
# However, the parameters in param_file may be overwritten by
# (or appended to) those following the @param_file, e.g:
# LOADLIN @param_file image=other_image root=/dev/other
#
#
C:\loadlin\linux24 # first value must be the filename of the Linux-kernel
# if this should be changed at load time,
# the keyword 'image=' must be used (see above)
#-v # verbose the actual params, but load anyway
#-t # write debug output and stop.
#-d c:\dump # write debug output to file c:\dump and stop.
vga=ask # legal values are:
# numeric:
# -3 ask
# -2 extended
# -1 normal
# 0..9 as if entered on boot-prompt
# symbolic:
# ask
# normal
# extended
# However, starting with Linux-1.3.75 the code for
# vga=has changed, to get the actual values for your
# special video card, you should use 'ask' and remember
# the values that were printed on screen.
#
# See also linux/Documentation/svga.txt
#root=/dev/hdb2 # the device which gets mounted as root FS
# root=201 # NOTE: the numeric device tokens are hexa !
# root=/dev/sda1
# ....
#rw
# rw
initrd=C:\loadlin\minirt24.gz
#initrd=..\initdisk.gz # This file gets loaded as 'initial ramdisk'
# see initrd.txt for more
#noinitrd # This keyword is usefull, if you wany get
# the 'initial ramdisk' loaded, but not
# processed at startup.
# It will remain as /dev/initrd.
# this can be used in /etc/rc to do some special work
#MY_SPECIAL_OPTION=what_I_need
ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 nomce noapic quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix frugal alsa restore=sda1
#ether=10,0x280,0xc8000,0xcbfff,eth0
#ether=10,0x280,0xd0000,0xd3fff,eth0
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and you call the par file with a command like this:
| Code Sample | C:\loadlin\loadlin.exe @C:\loadlin\linux.par
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