Booting DLX Linux using GRUB 0.97

Hello!
I have the most recent numbered release installed into my Slackware
Linux 13.37 system. I did need to build a library and install it.
(Only mentioned because the Bochs binary mentioned that one was
missing.)

I then decompressed the DLX example image and set the necessary
particulars for the floppy images and perhaps made sure that the
keyboard settings were correct for my system, and brought up the
simulator. It then booted the image properly.

Mounting the image using the instructions indicated in the manual I
was able to copy the contents of the image to a prepared compact flash
disk. From there I managed to work out the details regarding how the
card (or disk) was seen by Bochs, and then booted it. Despite having
the disk image set as an active one, it complained that the disk
wasn't an active one.

I then downloaded the earlier releases of GRUB and selected a disk
image. I then stuck the menu file into the disk image. (I used the
loopback mount method to do the same for that disk image. I edited it
to reflect the presence of the chosen kernel name for DLX and
attempted to boot it.

Oddly enough GRUB complained that the partition table on the disk
image was, ah, flaky.

It refused to boot it. Oddly enough and trying this out using a Zip
Disk instead of the compact flash card, I did get things to work, but,
ah, I'm not sure what I did to get it to boot.
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Gregg C Levine [email protected]
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."

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