[plug] Help please

[Steve Grasso]

I neglected to mention that full boot-loader options are only available from
the "Expert" install

On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, Steve Grasso wrote:
[snip]
> > 
> > 2. When I reinstall Mandrake 7.1 how do I leave my C drive alone and only 
> > configure the D drive as my Linux drive?
> > 
> 
> One way to accomplish this is to go through the Mandrake install process, and
> when you get to the Boot Loader section, elect to NOT install any boot-loader
> (LILO or GRUB). Instead, use your newly-created boot-floppy, or loadlin from
> your Windows C-Drive (hda) to load up your Linux disk (loadlin is in the
> dosutils directory on the first Mandrake 7.1 CD). This way, nothing will be
> written to the HDD containing your Windows installation. Also, although it
> should be selected by default, be sure that Linear mode -- or Logical Block
> Addressing (LBA) is specified in relation to your Linux disk during the
> install process.
> 
> Quick-tips for using loadlin:
> -- the detail is from a loadlin installation for a Win95/Mandrake 7.0 dual-boot
> machine here in the office
> 
> 1.  Boot into Linux from your newly-created Mandrake boot-floppy
> 2.  As root, put a blank floppy, formatted for DOS, into the floppy drive and
> mount it using mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> 3.  Copy /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.15-4mdk to /mnt/floppy (should be around 620kb)
> 4.  unmount the floppy using umount /mnt/floppy
> 5.  Boot into Windows
> 6. Create a directory called loadlin
> 7. Copy loadlin.exe and vmlinuz-2.2.15-4mdk to c:\loadlin
> 8.  Copy vmlinuz-2.2.15-4mdk to a file called zimage
> 9. Create a linux.bat file containing something like the following:
> 
> -x----- linux.bat --- start
> rem  First, ensure any unwritten disk buffers are flushed:
> smartdrv /C
>  
> rem  Start the LOADLIN process:
> c:\loadlin\loadlin  c:\loadlin\zimage  root=/dev/hdd5  ro  mem=128M
> -x----- linux.bat --- end
> 
> (NOTES:  mem=128M is used to specify 128MB of RAM to Linux -- and the root
> partition of the Linux installation was at hdd5 -- your setup may be different)
> 
> To boot into Linux, either use the boot-floppy, or from c:\loadlin (under
> DOS-mode) type linux
> 
> Regards,
> Steve