Quote Originally Posted by A. Jorge Garcia
OK, so I tried what you said. I made a WINME Startup Disk (rescue disk) and replaced the contents of autoexec.bat with

c:
cd \knoppix
loadlin vmlinuz ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=en vga=791 initrd=miniroot.gz screen=1280x1024 BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix

which all fit on one line. I also got rid of all the sections in config.sys except [common] and voila, it booted from hda1 properly.
Glad to hear I helped. I'd still advise using the loadlin parameter file,
keeping as many of the original syslinux.cfg parameters as posiible
without them being silently swallowed by the (DOS) command line interpreter.


Quote Originally Posted by A. Jorge Garcia
The only thing I don't like is all the rescue files on the disk. Which of these files can I get rid of?
Also, it says WINME Startup Disk on the screen when it boots - can I get rid of that?
Yes you can: I just came across a freedos boot disk, apparently prepared for
installing slackware (a linux distro), with fat32 support and loadlin.exe included:
http://www.userlocal.com/dosslack/
Just delete/rename config.sys + autoexec.bat and replace them with a
plain loadlin invocation, and you'll be using nothing but GPL'd software!

Btw, which rescue files are you talking about?