some success on the thinkpad 770 ed front

[sen_ml@eccosys.com]

i now have a rescue disk that will boot for the thinkpad 770 ed :-)

thanks to: 

  Steve Hsieh
  George Bonser
  Greg Starkes
  Nathan Norman
  Brandon Mitchell

for your help and comments.  if i left anyone out, i apologize -- please
let me know. 

i haven't gone through the whole installation process yet, but to summarize
what was done so far:

  1) make a vanilla hamm rescue disk (i made mine from an image dated 
     1998-07-21)

  2) make a zImage that includes:

     -ramdisk
     -initrd (initial ramdisk -- this option appears once you've selected
      ramdisk -- at least via make menuconfig)
     -loop
     -msdos
     -fat
     -minix
     -elf
     -ext2fs
     -procfs

     (making a zImage involves 'make zImage' in the appropriate kernel
     sources directory -- note: if you stick too much in your kernel, it
     might not fit on your rescue floppy -- zImage ended up in
     /usr/src/linux-2.0.34/arch/i386/boot/ for me, your mileage may vary.)

     note: it might be necessary to make sure you match the kernel version
     of your zImage w/ that of the rescue disk -- i don't know if this really
     matters -- any comments?

  3) copy the zImage to the rescue disk w/ the name 'linux' -- this overwrites
     the existing kernel image on the floppy. 

  4) w/ the rescue disk mounted, cd to the floppy's root (this will likely
     be /mnt or /floppy) and execute the rdev.sh shell script

note: these steps are outlined in the readme.txt file on the rescue disk
(as pointed out by Brandon Mitchell)

thanks again for all your help!

-sen

btw, as Greg Starkes pointed out, floppy=thinkpad does not seem to be
necessary.


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