Re: IBM Thinkpad 560X
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 12:09:12AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote:
> "Pedro I.Sanchez" <pedro.i.sanchez@altavista.net> writes:
>
> > I got a hold on the abovc portable and want to install the current
> > frozen there. I can't find any boot disks (tectra or something like
> > that) for portables though.
>
> Frozen (potato) boot floppies don't seem to need a separate tecra
> image. The default rescue/install disk should work fine. I had to
> use tecra when I installed stable (slink) on my 600E, but not when I
> installed potato on a colleague's 600X today. And potato installed
> like charm.
>
The tecra images were only needed for the 2.0 kernel. In the 2.2 kernels a
patch has been applied to fix the problem in file
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/setup.S
Drew
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