RE: How to boot on Linux?

• To: "Chengkai LI" <cli@uiuc.edu>, <oskit-users@fast.cs.utah.edu>
• Subject: RE: How to boot on Linux?
• From: "Alastair Reid" <reid@cs.utah.edu>
• Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:33:29 -0700
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <00fe01c04623$8964faf0$011310ac@srg186>
• Sender: owner-oskit-users@fast.cs.utah.edu

Chengkai LI writes:
> under  .../examples/x86
> I used "dd if=multiboot of=/dev/fd0"
> Then reboot the linux. But only got a blank screen.

It sounds like you're trying to boot a multiboot image directly.
This won't work - you need to use a multiboot->linux or multiboot->BIOS
 adaptor (depending on whether you want to boot using LILO or by inserting
 a boot disk and using the BIOS).
Have a look at the documentation (the intro and netboot chapters).

> I could not find "mklinuximage" under "..../oskit-20000901/boot/linux",
> there is only "mklinux2.in" and "mklinuximage.in".

Aha, sounds like you tried to use the multiboot->Linux adaptor but made the
mistake of looking in your source tree instead of in your build tree.


Hope this helps,

Alastair Reid

• Re: How to boot on Linux?
• From: Patrick Tullmann <tullmann@cs.utah.edu>

• How to boot on Linux?
• From: "Chengkai LI" <cli@uiuc.edu>

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