Re: [SOLVED] Toshiba Port?g? 3010CT
Oops. Looks like you found a solution.
Nate
On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 03:39:22PM -0300, Pablo Lorenzzoni wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I posted a message yesterday asking for advice on installing Woody in a
> Toshiba Port?g? 3010CT. I was getting "Kernel panic: VFS Unable to mount root
> fs on 01:00". I solved it and I am posting the solution for future reference.
>
> Well... It was actually a mistake I made myself. I was trying to boot with
> LOADLIN.EXE without stripping HIMEM.SYS off the RAM. All I needed to do was
> to boot (argh!) Windows with no drivers at all.
>
> After I did this, everything went on fine, except that, for some unknown
> reason, the boot-floppies weren't able to configure my network (I use a
> PCMCIA PCIC compatible slot with i82365 driver and a 3Com EtherLink III 589
> card with 3c589_cs driver). I just opened another console, configured it with
> ifconfig and route and that's it. I had no problems with the instalation
> through the network.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pablo
>
> P.S.: Just for reference, from Debian 3.0 CD I copied these files from
> dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/ to the Windows partition:
> dosutils/loadlin.exe
> images-1.44/rescue.bin
> images-1.44/root.bin
> drivers.tgz
> install.bat
> linux.bin
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