Bug#31509: Bug #31509
In message <[🔎] 36B67BB4.146F012A@stny.lrun.com> you wrote:
>Package: boot-floppies
>Version: 2.1.6-1999-01-30
>architecture: i386
>model: IBM ThinkPad 380Z
>memory: 97728k
>scsi: N/A
>cd-rom: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1702BC, ATAPI
>network: pcmcia (see next)
>pcmcia: 3COM 3C562D/3C563D EtherLink III (ethernet+modem)
>
>This is (another) update on bug #31509, "Cannot boot IBM 380Z Thinkpad".
>
>I downloaded the most recent "resc1440tecra.bin" rescue disk image from
>the 2.1.6 bootdisks directory, wrote the floppy with my desktop Debian
>system using "dd if=resc1440tecra.bin ..." as in the installation
>directions, and tried booting the Thinkpad with this floppy. Got the
>same message as in my most recent tries with the 2.1.5 versions: "A20
>gating failed." Sorry I couldn't report a happier result.
>
>Don't know if it is much of a help for the boot-floppies maintainers,
>but "Tom's Root/Boot Disk" (http://www.toms.net/rb/) worked fine for
>booting the Thinkpad.
Herbert, we seem to have a pretty large (or at least vocal ;) set of
people for whom the tecra disks are not functioning properly.
Do you think you could work directly with these folks and try to
resolve these issues? I guess it's just going to need a bit of
trial-and-error.
It might be that there is no good solution and
we need to just throw up some replacement kernels on the web
which work for some people with problems.... Funny that Tom's
boot disk seems to work so well for so many, however...?
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.....A. P. Harris...apharris@onShore.com...<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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