Loadlin and DidkOnChip

[Lyno Sullivan]

I pulled loadlin off the Debian Slink CD and loaded it onto my C: (DiskOnChip device) and tried to boot linux with the following MS--DOS command:

c:\loadlin\loadlin  c:\linux  root=/dev/sda1  ro  vga=3

and got the message "not an Image file".

I am a Linux novice and not quite sure what is going on.  Rather than trashing my system by doing something less than smart, I thought I would ask for a brief explanation of the issue and what my appropriate remedy might be.  Thanks for the help.