Re: Latest rescue disk locks up Thinkpad

[Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu>]

On Fri, 16 May 1997, Carpenter, Dean (MS Mail) wrote:

> I tried installing frozen on an IBM Thinkpad 760E last night - no
> success.  
> The rescue disk would boot, load root.bin then linix.bin? and lock up
> after
> a bunch of "loading dots".  Locked up tight - cold boot time.
> 
> Tried adding floppy=thinkpad to the boot line, no joy.  Something in
> 2.0.30 perhaps ?
> 
> I haven't verified it, but I recall that rex (2.0.27?) was able to boot
> and install
> without any special parameters.
> 
> Dean

This seems to be due to the incompatibility of bzImage kernel images with 
the Thinkpads.  I had to resort to the 1.1 install floppies when 
installing 1.2 on a Thinkpad 560.  If you get someone to give you a 
custom zImage kernel image, then you can replace the bzImage on the disk 
(It is my understanding that MSDOG format is used on the recue disks).

Unfortunately, I do not have access to the 560 anymore.

Syrus.

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