[TLUG] LOADLIN.... one question, please?

[tlug@linux.org.tw]

Dear Hsiao :

    According to your message, The reason for missing Win98 partition is
your kernel biuld did not support VFAT format. All you need to do is
recompile a kernel. Do you know how to compile kernel?

Regards,

Albert L.J. Chang
10/29/99




Pai-Yi HSIAO <hsiao@ccr.jussieu.fr> on 99/10/29 04:01:32 PM

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My Hard Disk is too big (13G). LILO can't handle with it.
So I use a floppy disk to boot into LINUX.
There is an article talking about using 'LOADLIN' to boot into LINUX.
 [cf. mini-HOWTO "Loadlin+Win95" and "Loadlin+Win98"
                (www.eskimo.com/~praxis/win98.html)    ]

I've tried it but there exists some problems as which I had
described to the author:-----
> There is one problem which I have met but I don't know how to deal with
> it: I tried your method "c:\loadlin c:\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 ro" to boot
> into Linux. It does successfully boot into it but I found that the linux
> system tells me that he couldn't 'mount' to the hda1 (win98). That is, I
> couldn't use the files in hda1 (win98) anymore. (If I use a floppy disk
> to boot in, Linux system can automatically mount to hda1).

The author told me that:---

>Did the floppy you used come with your Linux distibution? You probably
need
>to have VFAT support compiled into your kernel. This will allow you to
mount
>VFAT (Win95/Win98) partitions.

Is there anyone who has some idea about it, please ?
I don't what is VFAT. How to do it?

Thanks a lot!

PaiYi HSIAO