Re: Reboot Cycle

[Matti Valkonen <mvalkon2@myk.edu.mikkeli.fi>]

Dave Caswell wrote:
> 
> >       I'm trying to install debian on a Toshiba laptop off of a
> >cdrom from LSL.  The first little bit after running Boot.bat seems to
> >work ok, but as soon as it's supposed to reboot into Linux the
> >computer just starts an endless cycle of reboots.  LILO seems to load
> >the kernel ok, but I never see any output from the kernel itself.
> >
> >       Any ideas what can be going wrong??
> 
> Interesting data points:
>         Slackware and Redhat boot floppies work fine.
>         The same kernel that wouldn't boot from a Debian boot disk
> worked fine when copied onto a DOS partition and started with
> Loadlin.  I'd suspect that DOS was initializing something in the
> laptop if it weren't for the other boot disks working.
> 
> -davec
 
 I think that the kernel itself is loaded from the DOS partition and the
boot.bat can't find it from there so it starts the booting cycle. So the 
kernel isn't loaded.
 The boot floppies contain the kernel image and thus load the kernel.

 -mv


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