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Re: problems booting debian on Dell Inspiron 600m



On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 09:43:21PM -0500, John Greaton Wohlbier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to install debian on a new Dell inspiron 600m
> laptop (dual boot with Win XP). When trying to boot from
> floppies I get an error on the root.bin disk (something
> like apm: bios not found). I would like to describe this
> error in detail, but I do not know how to make a log file
> of the boot process for reporting here. Could someone
> tell me how to do such a thing?

There probably is a better way, but one is to try booting from a
serial interface, then save the terminal window's contents.

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Chris Tillman
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