Re: Laptop Installation problem
Hi,
I was able to install linux on IBM ThinkPad 380XD, thru loadlin. Install.bat
worked fine. (Booting from diskette or LILO was hopeless.) But important
thing is that you have FAT16, not FAT32. You may prepare a little FAT16
partition (using FIPS for example), format it for FAT16 and put installation
files there.
Sasha.
> I have just spent a day trying to install debian on my NEC versa laptop,
> which has a pentium 133, 24 meg of ram and a 1gig hard drive.
>
> I have tried to install off my HD using the procedure in the document
> "Installing Debain Linux 2.0 for x86". Once the install.bat file is
> executed, the expected cryptic information about hardware is displayed.
> However during the process, it freezes and displays:
>
> VFS: Cannot open root device 08:02
> kernel panic: VFH: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02
>
> I then tried installing via the recue disk. It managed to get to the boot
> prompt ok, but whilst it was uncompressing it stoped and displayed a boot
> error.
>
> I then attempted to use the resc1440tecra.bin rescue disk for laptops,
> which failed to get to the prompt displaying a boot failure. I then tried
> the other rescue disk, which then did the same thing as the laptop recue.
>
> I would really appreciate some help!
>
Reply to: