Re: boot...reboot...reboot...
On Tue, 09 Nov 1999, Michael Haarman wrote:
I got the same problem. At my Toshiba it helped to turn off the cache in the
BIOS-Setup. It is slow then, but You can start the machine and then first thing
to do is to compile Your own kernel. Make sure, You compile a zImage and with
this it worked perfect.
Matth
> I just installed Debian 2.1r2, 2.0.36 kernel on a Toshiba Satellite
> Pro 440CDX. I figured out I needed the "tecra" images, everything goes
> like butter, installing from CD's. I built a custom boot disk after
> install and prior to rebooting the first time; just in case, I intend
> to build a custom kernel.
>
> On reboot, the POST happens, LILO (there is no Windows here, thank you)
> and the Loading Linux . . . . . . . . . . .
>
> And the machine insists upon re-running the BIOS. It goes on like
> this. Booting with the floppy I created does the same thing. I
> scanned the digests here and saw nothing comparable; I've conned every
> Toshiba Satellite related install brief I could find on the web. I
> would reinstall but I'm not sure what I would/could do differently.
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