Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Feb 2004 08:11:38 -0800 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: Is LOADLIN still viable for 2.6? |
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On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:05:58 -0500 "Martin Bogomolni" <martinb@www.igotu.com> wrote:
| | | When trying to load a 2.6 kernel from a FreeDOS environment, I am now very | consistently unable to load the kernel and an initial ramdisk via LOADLIN. | | The nature of the embedded system I'm working with, requires that DOS be | present prior to loading linux during an interactive startup and hardware | intialization phase. | | Since it doesn't seem that Hans Lermen has been updating or maintaining | loadlin since the release of 2.4 is there anyone who is continuing to maintain | LOADLIN, or has it fallen by the wayside? Due to the nature of the system, | and a requirement for backwards compatibility and user interaction during | startup, I cannot use Peter Anvin's SYSLINUX linux loader which occurs too | early on in the process. | | Are there any other options to startup a linux environment from DOS?
I don't know anything about it, but you might look at gujin: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gujin/
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