Re: can't boot on Toshiba Satellite 2180 CDT
Hey fellas, had a similar problem.
If your HDD is ATA66 drive, Kernel2.2.12 and below does not support it.
Download a newer kernel and make a boot floppy to install the base system.
Also check the BIOS knows your HDD cause Linux in general does not
automatically recognise large HDD all the time.
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Alexander Clouter wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Alexander Clouter wrote:
> >
> > > I set up win98, used loadlin for the setup : I could boot, enter the
> > > setup process, and then reboot failed.
> > > I only see : loading linux............
> > >
> > I don't know why but you have to recompile a kernel. I'm not sure what
> > part is mangled however if you recompile the kernel with the attached
> > .config file it should boot with no problem. use kernel 2.2.14
> >
> I forgot to mention that also for me the kernel loading only crashed when
> using lilo, however soft loading linux worked everytime, even with the
> 'standard' slink kernel off the cd.
>
> Alex
>
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