Re: boot images for Inspiron 2500
I had roughly the same problem with my thinkpad i1200. Here's the
work-around I used. First, I set the bios to boot from the CDROM.
Then, I booted the recovery CD that came with the thinkpad, and
escaped to a DOS prompt using one of the F-keys. From the DOS prompt,
I ran the batch program boot.bat under /install on the Debian CD,
which boots linux and fires you into a normal install. Any method
that will get you a DOS prompt and a working CD drive ought to do the
trick.
I've heard a couple of theories as to why the Debian CD's won't boot
on some laptops. The one that seems to fit goes something like this:
laptop bios's and laptop CDROMs can only boot a 1.4 MB or smaller boot
image, and the boot image on the Debian CD is larger than this. But I
don't know if this is true. Good luck.
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 07:15:54PM -0700, Erik Ryberg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The root.bin and rescue.bin images provided on my Debian 2.2 disks will
> not boot my Dell Inspiron 2500; I cannot install Debian with these
> disks. I have used dd to move the images onto a floppy with the same
> result. (I am running Debian 2.2 on my desktop machine.) The computer
> hangs during the initial boot.
>
> Does anyone have or know where I can get boot images that will work with
> this machine? Or have another suggestion? It seems this problem surely
> has been encountered before but my efforts searching the debian.org
> support database and google searches have not been successful. I would
> thus be grateful for any help.
>
> Erik Ryberg
>
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