Re: ThinkPad 770

[Fabrizio Polacco <fabrizio.polacco@ntc.nokia.com>]

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.

fab