Hello. My linux.bat was a single line, similar to the following. If you are using umsdos, change accordingly, but I really do not recommend umsdos if you can avoid it. c:\linux\loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda9 ro speakup_synth=dectlk Let us quickly look at the above. Replace c:\linux with the real path to your Linux kernel. Also, replace vmlinuz with the kernel name. I had several different kernels available, so I had names like lnx2219 (for 2.2.19), lnx2412 (for 2.4.12) etc. Note that this method works with Slackware and Debian with no problems. Finally, the root device is just that, the root of your Linux filesystem. I used /dev/hda8 or /dev/hda9 which were logical drives. This way I could still boot to Windows but had an entrance into Linux as well. Note that lilo breaks with this setup. The "ro" means read-only for filesystem checking. You pass Speakup parameters on the command line, so "dectlk" is the DEC Expres. The "speakup_synth=" is a variable needed by the kernel for the Speakup synthesizer. I hope that helps. If you are interested, I also had my system set up so I could hold down "z" at boot to bypass the rest of the Windows boot and jump right into Linux. It worked well.
