What kind of Thinkpad is this? Not all require the floppy=thinkpad
option. I believe the 365 family is one of those - it's been a while
since I installed Debian on a Thinkpad, but I think I'm correct here :)
Also, when you rebuilt the kernel image, did you copy it to a floppy
with a cat or something, or did you make a lilo boot floppy? If you
went the cat route, I'm willing to bet that you're passing of the
floppy=thinkpad option on the rescue floppy is the problem, since a
generic kernel boot floppy doesn't accept boot options.
On the other hand, I could be wrong, but since you haven't given us all
the info I'm making some stabs in the dark.
Debian ran great on a 365E I used to have, btw.
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On 10 May 1997, Jim Meyering wrote:
:Thanks again, Rick.
:I've just tried again:
:
: For each of three brand new diskettes, I put resc1440.bin on it from
: my Linux box using dd (first with dd-3.16, later using dd-3.12,
: and then cat) to write the disks, then tried to boot with it.
:
:Same result: hangs after the `loading linux...........' message.
:Then, thinking maybe my fd is flaky, I resorted to using windows NT
:on the thinkpad to get rawrite.exe and resc1440.bin, and created the
:`rescue' floppy using the thinkpad's drive. Tried again... same result.
:
:Can someone out there who knows thinkpads tell me if the BIOS things
:suggested in docs need to be done? I couldn't figure out how to change
:any of them, but nothing in the docs made me think those things were
:critical. Holding down DEL at boot put me in some sort of low level
:testing interface.
:
:I'm wondering if this is due to something Debian specific.
:Yesterday, I got and built a kernel (for my Linux box) from
:
: ftp.cs.Helsinki.FI:/pub/Software/Linux/Kernel/v2.0/linux-2.0.30.tar.gz
:
:and put zImage on a floppy. When I tried *that* floppy in the thinkpad,
:it uncompressed linux, detected lots of devices and choked much later
:because the hard disk wasn't partitioned/formatted as it expected.
:
:Regards,
:Jim
:
:Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:| In the instructions there is a possible explaination. Unless those disks
:| are flawless it will lock just as you have described. It's happened to
:| me. Sometimes you have to go through a few disks before you find a good
:| one. This is because DOS is more forgiving of flaws in a floppy.
:
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