Boot Problem on IBM Thinkpad solved
my problem (from my yesterdays note) is solved. I used the boot-image
referenced in bug report Bug#43039 to be found at
ftp://kalle.csb.ki.se/pub/resc1440.bin-only-aic7xxx. And it works OK.
The problem was:
1. I searched for the wrong keyword in the bug reports: 'IBM Thinkpad'
instead of 'Adaptec Adapter'
and
2. I couldn't found the section
> <h3>Rescue Floppy</h3>
>
> <p>
>
> Users of Adaptec 2940 SCSI cards, and other SCSI controllers with the
> aic7xxx chipset, will probably experience problems with the standard
> boot-floppies. A kind user has made some experiments which many users
> find to solve their problems. There are two alternative Rescue
> Floppies for the i386 architecture at <a
> href="ftp://kalle.csb.ki.se/pub/";>ftp://kalle.csb.ki.se/pub/</a>.
> There are also replacement kernels in that location, which you can use
> to simply replace the existing kernels on the boot-floppies.
in the official documentation.
never-the-less, thanks to all, who helped me with lots of notes.
Best Regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen Roland Oberle
PS: I continued with the installation from my original CD-ROM and - of
course - after the first boot during installation, the same problem comes
back.
My solution was to copy - right before I re-boot - the kernel from the good
diskette image to my hard disk. From a second console <Alt+F2> I did:
cd target
cd boot
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
cp /floppy/linux .
sync
cd ..
rm vmlinuz
ln -s /boot/linux vmlinuz
lilo <--- do not forget this (costs me some re-boots)
Then was able to finish installation.
PS-2: Because I want to compile my own kernel, I would like to know what is
the difference in the good one from the above ftp site and the non-working
one on the CD-ROM? What components shall I select and which ones not? Any
special settings for the Adaptec adapter?
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