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From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: loadlin with 2.5.?? kernels
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At 12:55 PM 10/20/2002 -0400, Floydsmith@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 10/20/2002 9:03:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>efault@gmx.de writes:
>
>
>>Subj:loadlin with 2.5.?? kernels
>>Date:10/20/2002 9:03:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time
>>From:<mailto:efault@gmx.de>efault@gmx.de
>>To:<mailto:linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>>Sent from the Internet
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>>
>>
>>Greetings,
>>
>>I hadn't had time to build/test kernels since 2.5.8-pre3.  I now find that
>>loadlin doesn't work on my box any more.  Is this a known problem?  If so,
>>when did it quit working?  (loadlin obsolete?  other?)
>>
>>At the moment, the only way I have to boot is via floppy.
>
>
>loadlin will not work with any kernel that is 1024k or greater in size.
>There is a replacement named "linld" at:
>http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/index.html
>which help you.

Yeah, that's always been a pain, but that's not what I'm hitting (violent 
reboot).  I'll give linld (thanks!) a shot, but mostly, I want my dearly 
beloved loadlin back ;-)

         -Mike


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