[summary] install reboots, optiplex gx1

[Tim Larson <tim@keow.org>]

On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 07:03:46PM +0100, Tim Larson wrote:
> Having trouble installing debian (woody). Root floppy reboots
> immediately, no text printed.  Dell OptiPlex GX1 Bios A10
> Anybody have a similar experience, ideas how to debug this,
> or solutions?  I am using the "normal" root.bin written to
> disk with NTRawrite.exe 1.0.1, no errors reported during
> writing.
> 
> --Tim Larson

I gave up on booting from the debian woody boot floppy, and
instead booted from a redhat as 3.0 rescue cd, formatted the
drive, expanded root.bin, loopback mounted it, snagged "ar"
and libbfd from another machine and unpacked debootstrap.deb
into the expanded floppy image, and ran debootstrap manually
for a successfull install.  Btw, the machine now boots with
grub happilly from either a floppy or from the hard drive.

--Tim Larson