Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Boot problem.

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> >When running linux.bat from C: I get:
> >
> >Uncompressing Linux ...
> >Invalid compressed format (err=2)
> >Halting system
>
> I didn't use that function for quite a while, can you try it on a machine
> where you know DL is booting?
> Just to make sure there are no memory problems or so.

No memory problems, I ran memtest86 for 26+ hours before I started.  :-)

The problem appears to be loadlin needs to be upgraded to version 16c.
>From the loadlin-16c readme:

  LOADLIN-16c
  ===========
  Support for loading bzImages bigger than 1MB compressed.
  Those images may be produced by kernels >= 2.4.5
  (setup_header_version >= 0x0202).

So, I copied loadlin.exe (16c) to my floppy, and ran it from there.
Boots fine!  :-)

BTW, the linux.bat kernel parameters probably need to be updated too,
since they don't match the parameters in isolinux.cfg.

Is this a bug fix for 1.0, or a new 1.1 feature?  ;->

 - BS