Re: can't boot on Toshiba Satellite 2180 CDT

[Peter Gruber <petergruber@gmx.net>]

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.

I had a similiar problem with a toshiba notebook, but it was gone as soon
as I included the 'linear' option in lilo.conf.

ciao 

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