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skaos

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Posted: July 01 2004,10:02

No, it should be able to boot from a dos partition - I have tried it and it works. Could you try to make a boot diskette and boot with that diskette and the CD on another PC? - i.e. to see if there is some problem with your PC or with diskette/CD.

cbagger01

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Posted: July 01 2004,11:50

FYI,

loadlin will only work if you are using a "true" MSDOS prompt.

Example of a true MSDOS prompt:

Booting from a DOS disk (MSDOS 6.22 or older)
Booting from a Windows 95/98 boot floppy
Booting into MSDOS mode in Windows 95/98/98SE

The following are NOT a true MSDOS prompt:
Opening an MSDOS window inside Windows 95/98/98SE/ME
Opening a command prompt windows inside Windows NT/2000/XP

Hope this helps.

danini

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Posted: July 01 2004,21:37

if somebody is interested, i run damnsmall with loadlin,
using using this sequence in a bat file

loadlin.exe vmlinuz initrd=miniroot.img root=/dev/hda1 lang=en ro

and the miniroot and vmlinuz in the same directory that loadlin..

but the only condition is to boot into msdos w95 w98, command line..

using this way, i can test each new compilation of damnsmall without write a cd,

Hawk

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Posted: July 16 2004,15:23

Sorry I'm replying a bit infrequently...
Yeah I'm booting (or trying to) from "true" DOS, so that's not a problem. I 'm going to try what you suggested skaos, and see if that helps.

As far as I can see I'm pretty much doing what danini is doing, but I still doesn't seem to work.

87C751

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Posted: July 30 2004,03:59

Quote (skaos @ June 17 2004,06:28)

You should have the following files in the d:\knoppix directory (or is it d:\dsl?, assuming that hda2 is d:):
loadlin.exe
vmlinuz
miniroot.gz
KNOPPIX

Then use:
loadlin vmlinuz initrd=miniroot.gz

I'm trying to get DSL to boot on a ThinkPad 760XL. The CD isn't bootable, and I can't use the CD and floppy concurrently. I have all those files in c:\dsl, copied from a CF card in the PCMCIA slot. When I try

loadlin vmlinuz initrd=miniroot.gz

I see "Uncompressing Linux...", followed by

Invalid compression format (Err=1)

System halted...

I grabbed loadlin.exe from Slackware 10. Any ideas? The machine is pretty much a brick as a Windows box, but it would make a decent thin client for the rest of my network.

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