> After reinstalling Win98 and Mandrake last night, for the second time in
> as many weeks, I tried to use loadlin.exe to load some of the supplied
> Linux kernel images but each failed except for the "Linus" kernel which
> doesn't have either framebuffer or supermount compiled in. Has anyone
> seen this happen to them as well?
> I'll just compile my own tonight or some night but it annoyed me that
> loadlin report the file "wasn't a kernel image"..
It wouldn't be a zImage vs bzImage issue? Perhaps that version
of loadlin doesn't like bzImage and the framebuffer and
supermount support just pushed the kernel over the zImage
size limit?
Just guessing...
Later,
Kenn
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