Re: ThinkPad 770

[Nathan E Norman <finn@midco.net>]

On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Adam Klein wrote:

 : On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 09:57:51AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
 : > On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Christoph Baumann wrote:
 : > 
 : >  : Hi!
 : >  : 
 : >  : 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?
 : > 
 : > Find a rescue disk with a zimage kernel.  You may need to use an
 : > existing debian system for this task :)
 : 
 : That's what the tecra disk is. (IIRC)

In hamm, no.  I fought with this for quite a while - people kept saying
the hamm tecra disks were zimage ...

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