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1 Linld 0.97

2

3 Linld is a Linux loader for DOS. I wrote it when loadlin failed to load newer

4 kernel for me and I found loadlin source to bee too big and complex to fix.

5

6 So I just wrote a repacement.

7

8 Build instructions

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10 You need a DOS/Windows machine. Download linld097devel.tar.bz2,

11 unpack it, cd DIST/LINLD097 and run !COMPILE.BAT

12

13 Usage

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16 LINLD [image=<file>] [initrd=<file>] [vga=vgamode] [cl=<kernel cmdline>]

17 vgamode: ask,extended,normal or dec/oct/hex number

18 Defaults:

19 image=bzImage

20 initrd=(nothing)

21 cl=auto

22 vga=0

23 Use quotes: "cl=..." if you need spaces in cmdline

24 Use cl=@filename to take cmdline from file

25

26 Acknowledgements

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28 Lots of code was borrowed from loadlin source

29 (author of loadlin is Hans Lermen <lermen@elserv.ffm.fgan.de>).

30 Some code from linux kernel (setup.S) was used too.

31 Thank you guys!

32

33 Changelog

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35 0.91 Added support for cl=@filename

36 0.92 VCPI voodoo magic: booting under EMM386 and foes :-)

37 0.93 Cleanup. cl=@filename: cr/lf will be converted to two spaces

38 0.94 Ugly workaround for DOS int 15 fn 88 breakage

39 0.95 Bug squashed: vga=NNN did not like dec numbers, oct/hex only

40 Some VCPI comments added

41 0.96 Do not lowercase entire command line

42 0.97 memtop() must be rounded down to page boundary

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44 SliTaz patches

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46 New command line arguments:

47 -f force. Do not ask memory manager for allocation

48 -b base lower buffer address, default 1088k

49 root number root filesystem device

50 mem number higher memory address, default 256m

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52 Every arguments can be stored in a separate file and load with @filename, i.e

53 > linld @args.cmd

54

55 The -f and -b are useful skip XMM (max 64M ?) and VCPI (max 32M ?) limits:

56 > linld -f -b 64m initrd=rootfs4.gz,rootfs3.gz,rootfs2.gz,rootfs1.gz "cl=rw root=/dev/null video=-32"