RE: Problem of installation: first boot [tobshiba 4000cdt]
Yes, it's a known problem with Toshiba's. You have to use the Tecra boot
images. Unfortunately, my Toshiba won't boot that either. I've posted a
question about this in several locations last week and have not gotten any
responses. I have found, however, that it will boot the next level after
Slink, known as Potato. But I haven't gotten it to recognize the CD-ROM
drive. I'm a little disappointed about the complete lack of help on this
issue, as I had heard so much about the supportive Linux community.
Basically, I'd give up if I wasn't completely stubborn about these kind of
things.
David
-----Original Message-----
From: J K [mailto:manowar@graffiti.net]
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 9:25 PM
To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
Subject: Problem of installation: first boot [tobshiba 4000cdt]
I bought the Debian GNU/Linux Unleashed book planning to install Debian
GNU/Linux on my laptop Toshiba 4000CDT.
I had previously installed Redhat 6.0 before. I partitioned my hard drive
using Partition Magic 4.0 in win98.
On first boot with a floppy boot disk, there will be a message "Loading
root.bin....... Boot failed".
Tried the same thing on my desktop and the same message appears.
On first boot with the cdrom, the welcome screen will appear as per normal,
on pressing [Enter], the message "Loading root.bin....." followed by
"Loading linux......" then the screen will blank out and the welcome screen
will appear again. This keeps looping.
I suspect that either the cdrom is defective or there is hardware command
that I need to append to the boot prompt.
Does anyone knows the solution to this?
Regards,
manowar
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