Re: Help needed with laptop
I had a similar problem with an AST M series laptop. Turned out it was the
way Debian compile the kernel for the distribution. Try compliling your own
kernel and make sure you make a zImage kernel rather than a bzImage kernel
and hopefully you should be OK.
Pat
On Thu Jan 14, 1999 at 06:43:45PM +0000, tracheotomy bob wrote:
> Hallo all,
> I relly hope you can help me with this REALLY annoying problem. I recently bought
> a Sony VAIO 747 (impulse) and I want to put Debian on it (I have 2.0 (hamm)).
> I can put Red Hat 5.1 on it easily. But Debian is a bitch. Sometimes it starts and
> sometimes it doesn't. It loads the root.bin alright but after loading most of the kernel, the laptop
> reboots. Sometimes it doesn't.
> If it does start then I can install the CD OK, but on the reboot I get a 1FA prompt.
> If I press 1 for /dev/hda then I get a prompt of 1234F.
> It doesn't what I do the machine will not start with Debian on it. Red Hat works
> perfectly so it's not the hardware. If the CD boots then I'm assuming that the kernel works OK
> with the hardware, but the fact that it aborts during the 'loading kernel' stage is suspect.
> I'm inclined to think that it may be the way lilo is operation. Red Hat seems
> to install lilo into /dev/hda and debian seems to install to /dev/hda1. Maybe I'm wrong
> here I could use that cleared up.
> Anyway, any help with this will be much appreciated.
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