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DD'ing a Boot Floppy
  • dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0
  • rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda1

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  • Boot your system into DOS
  • use LoadLin ( a:\linux.bat ) to boot into linux on /dev/hdb1

    • A:> edit a:\linux.bat

      REM
      REM flush everything to disk
      smartdrv /C

      REM
      REM Boot linux
      loadlin D:\vmlinuz initrd=D:\initrd root=/dev/hdb1 ro
      loadlin bzImage initrd=rescue.img ramdisk_size=82000 ro root=/dev/ram vga=773

      REM
      REM End linux.bat

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