I recently bought the debian 1.3 cd's and an IBM thinkpad 760xl. The IBM came with windows NT preinstalled. I have a 2.1Gig HD which I repartitioned into two gig partitions using fips.exe. That worked fine.
My NT partition was booting fine (first partition) until I tried to install linux. I made the boot-floppies via the method recommended by the Debian Linux User's Guide (using rawrite2.exe to copy resc1440.exe, drivers1440.exe, and the base-1.bin - 5.bin to seven dos formatted disks). I tried to boot the install via disk drive and the boot-rescue and the boot: prompt came up. I hit return and the system said loading root.bin ...... loading linux ...... and then just hung there doing nothing. I waited about 5 minutes and then decided that I had done something wrong but I didn't know what. So I copied the install files (root.bin, linux, resc1440.bin, driv1440.bin, base-1.bin - 5.bin) to my d: partition (created via fips). I then booted the system with a DOS 6.2 rescue floppy I had, changed to the d: partition and loaded the install with loadlin (I had that on d:, too) using loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin and the install began and continued along fine. During install I partitioned my hardrive being careful not to touch the 1Gig Dos16 partition I had (which housed NT). I then completed the install (installing no modules because I had no idea which ones to load, and I had read in the HOWTO's that linux would detected the IDE interface for the hard disk and the interface for the floppy drive), created a boot floppy and rebooted using the boot-floppy and got this LILO loading linux and nothing else, the machine just hung there. So I removed the boot-floppy, and restarted the thinkpad and saw this error in partition tables so now NT is gone. Ah, well so much for learning NT. So now I've tried several attempts to install debian 1.3 and always the same problem. On reboot the system hangs at LILO loading linux So the two main things here 1) I cannot install linux without first booting a DOS rescure disk and loading the install using loadlin. If I just try the boot-rescue disk (with resc1440.bin rawrite2'in to it) the system hangs after loading linux .... 2) After reboot (whether from floppy or hard drive, I've tried both) the system hangs at LILO loading linux So I'm thinking that debian doesn't now how to read the IDE Hard Drive interface and can't boot. So what do I do about this? - John Kloss -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .