Booting with Loadlin from Dos/Win95/Win98

If you cannot boot SystemRescueCd from the CDRom drive, you can use loadlin. This program let you boot a linux system from Dos/Win9x. It's not possible to use loadlin from Windows NT/XP. If you are using win9x, you have to exit the graphical user interface. The best way is pressing F8 during the boot process of Windows, and going to the command line mode.

• Step-1: Create a new directory: c:/srcd
• Step-2: Copy all files from the loadlin and isolinux directories (especially vmlinuz1, initrd1, loadlin.exe) to c:/srcd
• Step-3: Copy sysrcd.dat to c:/
• Step-4: Go in the new directory: "cd c:/srcd"
• Step-5: Run the following command:

     loadlin vmlinuz1 initrd=initrd1 acpi=off root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrcdos