loadlin questions with RH7.1

[Kevin Brown]

OK, looks like the files might be ruined.  My md5sums don't match yours.  I'm
going to try and ftp them down from VAlinux and see if the md5s for those match.

...

OK, got the files from VAlinux and the md5sums match.  Looks like the ISO I
downloaded is hosed also, sigh.  Guess I'll find somewhere to get it from to
use.  Maybe just put the file structure on the hard drive instead of using up
another CD.

> Hokeydoke.  From a DOS prompt I did:
> 
> C:\> md linux
> C:\> xcopy d:\dosutils\*.* c:\linux\*.* /s
> 
> rebooted, sans satanic GUI and:
> 
> C:\> cd linux
> C:\> autoboot
> 
> Worked like a champ. Do yours look like these?
> 
> # md5sum vmlinuz
> ff56e4d1087ce6992a345ee3ace95343  vmlinuz
> 
> # md5sum initrd.img
> 6532bff9837da15d86b83d9d0ba10502  initrd.img
> 
> # md5sum boot.img
> 6e7259f504faa3397ecd9c6fcd0e7f59  boot.img

> > Yes I was initiating the command from within c:\linux.  Guess I should have said
> > that, heheh.  I also tried the full path and it still gave that same error.
> > Doing this worked fine for RH6.2 to install.  I didn't see any updates for
> > images on the VAlinux mirror, but it could be possible that there is something
> > wrong with them and since I can't get into RHs Ftp server I can't verify if the
> > mirror was up to date or not.
> >
> > > > OK, downloaded the ISO for cd one from the local mirror that a plugger was so
> > > > kind to set up (sorry, don't remember your name, but thanks).  Since I can only
> > > > have one peripheral plugged into my laptop at a time (cdrom or floppy or second
> > > > battery) I usually copy the files from the dosutils directory onto my c:\linux.
> > > > Then edit autoboot.bat to point to the right location (and verify the \ instead
> > > > of / for paths).  I run autoboot.bat and loadlin spits back "not an Image file"
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > > Autoboot.bat initially said:
> > > > loadlin autoboot\vmlinuz initrd=autoboot\initrd.img
> > > >
> > > > both files exist and comparing the sizes of them to the one on VAlinux's mirror
> > > > shows them to be the same size.  I tried various things like:
> > > >
> > > > loadlin autoboot\initrd.img
> > > > loadlin autoboot\vmlinuz
> > > > loadlin autoboot\boot.img  --> (copied from the images directory)
> > >
> > > Your default directory is c:\linux when you issue the loadlin command,
> > > right? If not, add "cd c:\linux" to autoboot.bat before loadlin.
> > >
> > > I found a couple messages suggesting you need to include the full path
> > > name, as in:
> > >
> > > loadlin c:\linux\autoboot\vmlinuz initrd=c:\linux\autoboot\initrd.img
> > >
> > > That makes sense (to me) in a goofy, DOS-like way.  If loadlin was
> > > reading the directory instead of the image, it should say "not an image
> > > file". I can't seem to find the source for loadlin.exe - must sleep...
> > > If that doesn't work I'd try to get the source to find out exactly what
> > > prompts that message.