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Re: TP 600e reboots w/any rescue disk



On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 02:12:32AM -0800, Troy Davis wrote:
> I've got a Thinkpad 600e that I'd like to install Slink on.  Everything I've
> seen indicates that it should install fine with the tecra boot disks.  I've
> tried tecra, tecra-safe, and the standard rescue disk, with various
> combinations of "floppy=thinkpad", "floppy=nodma", and "mem=62m" (it has 64).
> 
> Every single time, it reads root.bin and gets about a dozen . 's into loading 
> Linux.  At that point, it suddenly reboots (and does that all over again if I 
> don't remove the floppy).

This is known problem. Solution is to compile and use zImage (as opposed
to bzImage) kernel.

Alex Y.
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