loadlin :)
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Faith Darilek wrote:
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> Hi, everyone. I have a problem, and could either use a little help or a
> big favor, depending on how difficult this would be to resolve. :)
> Several months ago, I wrote about using e2compr to compress files on my
> partition. While that isn't the direct cause of my current problem,
> I'm certainly hoping it is indirectly involved. I recently purchased a
> TV tuner, and have been attempting to get it working under Linux. I've
> failed, though, so I decided to try resorting to windows, since I
> probably wouldn't have to worry about quite as much. Once I had it
> working under windows, I could try using Linux. Well, booting windows
> produced the nice blue screen of death, with a cryptic error message. I
> should have just decided to ignore windows, but I didn't. I tried to
> reinstall from a win95 cdrom, hoping that some new hardware which I had
> installed but not autodetected would be configured. In doing
> this, I completely forgot about microsoft's bullying policy where disk
> partitions are concerned. Anyhow, it trashed my boot sector, replacing
> it with the standard microsoft one. "No problem," I thought. "I have an
> old kernel on my c: drive which will boot up long enough for me to run
> lilo and reboot." Well, I had forgotten that this old kernel wasn't
> patched with the e2compr patch, and wouldn't load the OS. Similarly,
> tools like ext2tool couldn't read the partition either, claiming that
> there was an unknown error, 2147333211 or something
> like that. I'm sure that isn't right, but the last few digits were
> fairly random anyway, and I suspect that whoever designed the Ext2
> standard didn't forsee the possibility of billions of errors; if so,
> we've got a messed-up standard.. :)So, I have 3 courses of action
> at this point. I can reinstall Linux. I don't want this, though. I have
> my web pages, as well as some CGIs that I don't want to have to rewrite.
> Add to that papers that I am working on, projects, etc. and you have a
> pretty formidable reason why I don't want to reinstall.
> I'm also thinking that if I can find a boot loader that works under DOS,
> I can install that, load Linux, and copy the e2compr-aware kernel to my
> DOS partition, installing Lilo at the same time. Are there any boot
> loaders which are fairly simple to install under DOS which
> can load Linux? I need something that is free; not a commercial product.
> The third alternative (here's the big favor :) is to have someone build
> an e2compr-aware kernel for me. I was running 2.2.3, so anyone who is
> running that should be able to help me. If the kernel source is backed
> up to another directory, the e2 patches applied and the kernel rebuilt
> without running any of the install targets, building the kernel
> shouldn't effect your running system at all. If someone chooses to do
> this, please build something with e2compr in the kernel, not as a
> module. Also, select all methods of compression in the kernel, and
> select bzip2 as the default compression. I'm using an IDE disk with a
> PS/2 mouse, since my system boots into X immediately, so I'll need that
> in the kernel as well. But, beyond that, I don't need anything else. If
> someone could build a vmlinuz for me and
> email it as an attachment to this address, I'd greatly appreciate it.
> When I get back, maybe we can have a beer or something. :) Seriously,
> though, I'd appreciate this lots, since all I'd hopefully need to do is
> copy the file onto my DOS partition and fire up loadlin on it.
>
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