Re: ThinkPad 770
I'll have to try those disks also on my new Thinkpad 380Z.
I tried the latest TECRA's and get the same 'A20 gating failed' problem.
Someone should definitly provide disk/cd boot images for us Thinkpad
users .... mainly for people getting that specific problem.
Regards,
Matthew
On 15 Feb 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Feb 1999 18:54:43 +0200, Fabrizio Polacco <fabrizio.polacco@ntc.nokia.com> said:
>
> > Christoph Baumann wrote:
> >> A friend of mine wants to install Debian on a ThinkPad 770. While
> >> booting the install kernel he got either: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable
> >> to mount root fs on 01:00
> >>
> >> or using the resc1440tecra: A20 Gating error
> >>
> >> What can he do?
>
> > I had the same problem on a TP 600. I rebuilt a zimage kernel much
> > thinner that 640k (so it doesn't need the A20 coomand) and also a
> > drive disc with PCMCIA, to get the network available iimmediately.
>
> > You can find the two images in
> > ftp://ftp.icenet.fi/private/fpolacco/debian/
>
> > For your security, these are the md5sums:
>
> > df950b31aa7a121c2432ec60bc2fdd7a drv1440tp600.bin
> > c1bac9a0acf742b0d9ecc31946656fbe resc1440tp600.bin
>
> > Hope that this would help.
>
> Herbert, I don't know exactly what Fabrizio did, but his set of
> thinkpad-ready floppies seem to fix the 'A20 gating' problems for
> thinkpad users. I hope you will get a chance to check out what
> Fabrizio did and see whether (a) we can merge his work in with the
> tecra floppies, or alternatively, provide a third set of root/boot
> disks.
>
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>
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