Installation Question (IBM TP 560)
Hi -
I've been trying to get Debian installed on my IBM Thinkpad 560 for a
couple days now and I'm still having some problems. Initially it wouldn't
boot, except with loadlin, but I looked through the mailing list archives
and used the Tecra boot disks and got it to work.
My problem now is that I want to have Linux coexist with other OS's via
the OS/2 Boot Manager. I set up my partitions using OS/2 fdisk and
installed Boot Manager. Then I ran the Debian install program to get a
base system installed. When prompted about having LILO write the MBR
and making Linux the default, I answered no to both questions. Now, when
I reboot and select the Linux partition in BM, it reports that the
"partition is not formatted." and goes back to BM. I can boot up with
the boot floppy created during installation.
Is it possible that the problem is that Linux is reading the wrong disk
geometry and is writing at the wrong location? I installed IBM's 4 Gig
drive, which lists a geometry of 7944 cyl, 16 heads, 63 sectors in the
databook. But Linux fdisk reports something like 993 cyl, 128 h, 63 s.
Is there some option I can pass to LOADLIN to set the correct geometry
or is this not related to my problem.
My system is an IBM Thinkpad 560, with a 120MHz Pentium, 12.1" active
screen, 72 Megs or RAM and the 4 Gig hard drive.
On another note, I was also wondering which packages I need to install
to make Debian recognize my Sony PRD-650 PCMCIA CD-ROM drive to complete
my installation? Its a SCSI drive and comes bundled with a PCMCIA SCSI
adapter which is basically a repackaged Adaptec 1460 SlimSCSI.
Thanks very much in advance,
- Justin
justin@quickturn.com
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