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KernelPanic

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Come and help a Linux dood with Windows 3.11
« Reply #15 on: 12 December 2002, 17:28 »
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Originally posted by Calum:
if you install it to hd it does not touch the MBR (as it says in the FAQ, the first link at the bottom of the basiclinux page) and if you want to add it to GRUB, you'd just perform whatever hocuspocusery you do in GRUB to add another bootable partition. Once you install it to a hard drive partition, you then copy your kernel (zImage) from your DOS baslinux folder into your new /boot directory on your new ext2 basiclinux partition, and then you point your bootloader at that.

There's instructions somewhere (i think in the baslinux FAQ) for how to add it to lilo, and i am sure they would be useful to you.

This 'copying the kernel' business is the exact reason why it won't work if you run basiclinux and bas2hd from the floppy based version. if you copy the floppy kernel to /boot, it doesn't appear to work. It needs to be the DOS kernel that you use.



I'm a little confused, but i'll go RTFM  ;)
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