RE: The usual reboot problems

[Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com>]

On 22-Feb-99 Shaleh wrote:
>> Any help would be very appreciated! :-)
>> (The debian user list is much friendlier
>> and supportive  than Red Hat's :-)
> 
> We try (=
> 
> On my laptop it would reboot if I was not using a zImage kernel.  The tecra
> disks should provide this kernel.  If not, do you have another linux box? 
> If
> so you could make your own boot disk.  When you compile the kernel make sure
> you do make zImage (or if you use make-kpkg, add --zImage to the command
> line
> options).

I have another Linux box that has a CDROM, so I was thinking I could install
through that machine (install on ThinkPad via the other machine).
Are you saying I can just copy my bzImage from one machine to a floppy and
then boot the ThinkPad with that?

I have a bzImage, not a zImage, btw.

thanks

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Andrew