Re: debian won't boot: Inspiron 600m, Windows XP dualboot
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 17:59:15 -0500
John Greaton Wohlbier <wohlbier@cae.wisc.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an inspiron 600m that I am trying to set up as a
> dual boot with debian and XP. For now let me just say
> that the debian boot process (from floppies) doesn't work
> (apm bios not found, kernel panic, etc.). Before explaining
> the problem in detail to this list or debian-boot
> I would like a way to generate a log file of the boot messages.
> Is there a way to generate such a log file?
I don't think so as from your description these messages happen before
there is any filesystem mounted that you could log to. The floppy you
booted from isn't a proper filesystem.
Have you tried the versions of the boot floppies with different kernels?
There is one called safe which says it works around some buggy BIOSes
and the ide-pci version doesn't have APM support so may work better on
your hardware.
See debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23-2002-05-21/images-1.44/
on your local debian mirror.
Steve.
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