loadlin parted, good news, bad news

[Dave Waller]

So my problem (or at least one of them) is Windows ME.  Which ironically
I am trying to replace!

I tried my loadlin stuff and I get the kernel to load and the initrd to
start.  but then something I get a core dump after a message about
inserting the root floppy.

any way for the record I believe that this is how to split the
partboot-1.4.4.img into a kernel and initrd file

dd if=partboot-1.4.4.img of=kernel.img bs=1k count=582
dd if=partboot-1.4.4.img of=initrd.img bs=1k skip=582

then

loadlin kernel.img /dev/ram rw initrd=c:\initrd.img

Dave