Boot Fedora with Loadlin in Win98.

[Richard Hally]

Moller wrote:

>Hi !
>
>Thanks for the answer Barry Yu, but it's my fault that I didn't specify more clearly what I meant.
>
>I am not using Grub or Lilo as a bootloader because I don't want to mess up my MBR in Windows98, i like to have win98 as first boot.
>I want to use Loadlin, to load the Fedorakernel into memory from Win98-DOS.
>I have done what I suppose to do, according to the Loadlin+Win95/98ME mini-HOWTO(http://www.eskimo.com/~praxis/)
>But it doesn't work properly when I Boot Fedora from Win98-DOS.
>Here is a sample of my bootmessage that I get when I boot with loadlin from win98 to Fedora :
>
>NET: Registered protocol family 17
>md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
>md: autorun ...
>md:  ...autorun DONE.
>EXT2-fs: hda3: Couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (4).
>Kernel panic - not syncing : VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (3,3).
>
>Then the system go into halt and I have to push my RESET-button to reboot my system back to win98.
>
>
>So, what to do ?   I need help .........
>
>Is there anyone out there, that starts FedoraCore3 with Loadlin in Windows98, that can help me to configure my system properly ?
>
>Thanks all.
>Philip Moller
>Malmo, Sweden
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Barry Yu" <barryyupuilee at sbcglobal.net>
>To: "Fedora SELinux support list for users &developers." <fedora-selinux-list at redhat.com>
>Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 2:09 AM
>Subject: Re: Loadlin.
>
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>>Moller wrote:
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>>>Hello!
>>>
>>>I want to dualboot FedoraCore3 with Win 98.
>>>How do I do it ?
>>>Here is a sample of my bootmessage that I get when I boot with loadlin:
>>>
>>>NET: Registered protocol family 17
>>>md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
>>>md: autorun ...
>>>md:  ...autorun DONE.
>>>EXT2-f2 warning (device hda3):ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2
>>>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
>>>Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed
>>>Warning: unable to open an initial console.
>>>SELinux: Disabled at runtime.
>>>SELinux: Unregistering netfilter hooks
>>>      
>>>
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>>Barry Yu wrote:
>>Install w98 first in a f32 partition, and then secondly install the fc3, 
>>the fc3 will auto dectect the existing w98,  during insatllation of fc3 
>>at configuartion of boot loader, just take whatever the default 
>>setting,  when finished, the grub will be the boot up manual for you to 
>>select which O/S you want to boot up with (w98 or fc3). Hope I 
>>understood your post correctly.
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