Re: Latest rescue disk locks up Thinkpad

[Kirk Hilliard <kdh5j@weyl.math.virginia.edu>]

Dean Carpenter <dcarpenter@kraft.com> 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.

The 1997-05-16/resc1440.bin rescue disk also fails to boot Toshiba
Tecras.  I recall some discussion recently that the Tecra patch was no
longer going to be applied because it was thought to interfere with
other computers.  This confused me because Sven Rudolph forwarded a
message to me in which he wrote (concerning the Tecra patch):

> > (I deleted the patch because I thought it became part of
> > 2.0.29. Supposedly I were wrong.)

and Herbert Xu replied:

> It is part of 2.0.30-1.  And 2.0.29 is now obsolete.

This raises the questions:

  - Has the Tecra patch become an integral official part of the newer
    kernels, and what kernel is being used on the rescue disk?

  - Does the Tecra patch also help the Thinkpad problem or is it
    unrelated?

  - Is there going to be a Tecra version of the rescue disk generally
    available?

Dean, I could provide you a pair of (old) rescue disks, one with, and
one without the Tecra patch, if you want to experiment.

Kirk Hilliard


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