Re: Rescue disk and Thinkpads (problem identified).
Bruce Perens wrote: > > From: Erv Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Well, i had trouble booting a toshiba tecra with bzImages except via > > loadlin. The solution was to use a simple zImage instead of the > > bzImage. Now, lilo, syslinux, etc all work. > > I'd rather fix the software bug that prevents bzImage from working on > some computers. Thus, I need good data on what those computers are, > and I need people with those computers to test new boot floppies. I can test it. My laptop is a Dell Lattitude Xpi P75D. (And it has this problem, although it reboots immediately, rather than locking up.) Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Rescue disk and Thinkpads (problem identified).
Rob Browning wrote: > > I had posted earlier about a problem getting Debian 1.2/1.3 installed > on a 365x thinkpad. Several solutions were offered and in the end it > turned out that the people claiming that some thinkpads could not > handle the bzImage format were correct. It was not the > "floppy=thinkpad" problem. I didn't need that at all. > So, if it doesn't make the kernel too big, could we switch back to > using zImages on the rescue disk rather than bzImages? It won't hurt > any other machines, and there are apparently a (small) number of > machines out there (some Thinkpads and some Toshibas I think) that it > would greatly help. I have the same problem with my Dell Laptop. With the same source tree and config options, the zImage boots and the bzImage resets the machine after loading. If there is no convincing reason to use bzImage, we should switch to zImage. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
