slackware-current/slackbook/html/booting-loadlin.html
Patrick J Volkerding 75a4a592e5 Slackware 13.37
Mon Apr 25 13:37:00 UTC 2011
Slackware 13.37 x86_64 stable is released!

Thanks to everyone who pitched in on this release: the Slackware team,
the folks producing upstream code, and linuxquestions.org for providing
a great forum for collaboration and testing.

The ISOs are off to be replicated, a 6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a
dual-sided
32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD.  Please consider supporting the Slackware
project by picking up a copy from store.slackware.com.  We're taking
pre-orders now, and offer a discount if you sign up for a subscription.

As always, thanks to the Slackware community for testing, suggestions,
and feedback.  :-)

Have fun!
2018-05-31 22:45:18 +02:00

116 lines
4 KiB
HTML

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org" />
<title>LOADLIN</title>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7" />
<link rel="HOME" title="Slackware Linux Essentials" href="index.html" />
<link rel="UP" title="Booting" href="booting.html" />
<link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Booting" href="booting.html" />
<link rel="NEXT" title="Dual Booting" href="booting-dual.html" />
<link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="docbook.css" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>
<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084"
alink="#0000FF">
<div class="NAVHEADER">
<table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0"
cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<th colspan="3" align="center">Slackware Linux Essentials</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href="booting.html"
accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
<td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">Chapter 7 Booting</td>
<td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="booting-dual.html"
accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
<hr align="LEFT" width="100%" />
</div>
<div class="SECT1">
<h1 class="SECT1"><a id="BOOTING-LOADLIN" name="BOOTING-LOADLIN">7.2 LOADLIN</a></h1>
<p>The other booting option that comes with Slackware Linux is LOADLIN. LOADLIN is a DOS
executable that can be used to start Linux from a running DOS system. It requires the
Linux kernel to be on the DOS partition so that LOADLIN can load it and properly boot the
system.</p>
<p>During the installation process, LOADLIN will be copied to root's home directory as a
.ZIP file. There is no automatic setup process for LOADLIN. You will need to copy the
Linux kernel (typically <tt class="FILENAME">/boot/vmlinuz</tt>) and the LOADLIN file
from root's home directory to the DOS partition.</p>
<p>LOADLIN is useful if you would like to make a boot menu on your DOS partition. A menu
could be added to your <tt class="FILENAME">AUTOEXEC.BAT</tt> file that would allow you
to pick between Linux or DOS. A choice of Linux would run LOADLIN, thus booting your
Slackware system. This <tt class="FILENAME">AUTOEXEC.BAT</tt> file under Windows 95 will
provide a sufficient boot menu:</p>
<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td>
<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
@ECHO OFF
SET PROMPT=$P$G
SET PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\
CLS
ECHO Please Select Your Operating System:
ECHO.
ECHO [1] Slackware Linux
ECHO [2] Windows 95
ECHO.
CHOICE /C:12 "Selection? -&gt; "
IF ERRORLEVEL 2 GOTO WIN
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO LINUX
:WIN
CLS
ECHO Starting Windows 95...
WIN
GOTO END
:LINUX
ECHO Starting Slackware Linux...
CD \LINUX
LOADLIN C:\LINUX\VMLINUZ ROOT=&lt;root partition device&gt; RO
GOTO END
:END
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>You will want to specify your root partition as a Linux device name, like <tt
class="FILENAME">/dev/hda2</tt> or something else. You can always use LOADLIN at the
command line. You simply use it in the same manner as it is in the example above. The
LOADLIN documentation comes with many examples on how to use it.</p>
</div>
<div class="NAVFOOTER">
<hr align="LEFT" width="100%" />
<table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0"
cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="booting.html"
accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
<td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
<td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href="booting-dual.html"
accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Booting</td>
<td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="booting.html"
accesskey="U">Up</a></td>
<td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Dual Booting</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>