wok annotate linld/stuff/linld.txt @ rev 9626
Fixed cowpatty. dict file should be in /usr/share/cowpatty folder instead of /usr/share folder.
| author | Christopher Rogers <slaxemulator@gmail.com> |
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| date | Sun Apr 24 21:47:17 2011 +0000 (2011-04-24) |
| parents | |
| children | 23fc786c04e8 |
| rev | line source |
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| slaxemulator@9309 | 1 Linld 0.97 |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 2 |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 3 Linld is a Linux loader for DOS. I wrote it when loadlin failed to load newer |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 4 kernel for me and I found loadlin source to bee too big and complex to fix. |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 5 |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 6 So I just wrote a repacement. |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 7 |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 8 Build instructions |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 9 ------------------ |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 10 You need a DOS/Windows machine. Download linld097devel.tar.bz2, |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 11 unpack it, cd DIST/LINLD097 and run !COMPILE.BAT |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 12 |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 13 Usage |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 14 ----- |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 15 |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 16 LINLD [image=<file>] [initrd=<file>] [vga=vgamode] [cl=<kernel cmdline>] |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 17 vgamode: ask,extended,normal or dec/oct/hex number |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 18 Defaults: |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 19 image=bzImage |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 20 initrd=(nothing) |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 21 cl=auto |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 22 vga=0 |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 23 Use quotes: "cl=..." if you need spaces in cmdline |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 24 Use cl=@filename to take cmdline from file |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 25 |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 26 Acknowledgements |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 27 ---------------- |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 28 Lots of code was borrowed from loadlin source |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 29 (author of loadlin is Hans Lermen <lermen@elserv.ffm.fgan.de>). |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 30 Some code from linux kernel (setup.S) was used too. |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 31 Thank you guys! |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 32 |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 33 Changelog |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 34 --------- |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 35 0.91 Added support for cl=@filename |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 36 0.92 VCPI voodoo magic: booting under EMM386 and foes :-) |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 37 0.93 Cleanup. cl=@filename: cr/lf will be converted to two spaces |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 38 0.94 Ugly workaround for DOS int 15 fn 88 breakage |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 39 0.95 Bug squashed: vga=NNN did not like dec numbers, oct/hex only |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 40 Some VCPI comments added |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 41 0.96 Do not lowercase entire command line |
| slaxemulator@9309 | 42 0.97 memtop() must be rounded down to page boundary |