ThinkPad boot disk
RTFM for ThinkPads! Laptops! Installs! One laptop is not the same as
all!
I think the boot disk you need is "resc-tecra.bin" or
"resc-tecra-safe.bin"
Other things: @ the boot prompt, try floppy=thinkpad, mem=<mem-1MB),
etc, etc, etc... All this info is availible @ http://www.debian.org.
Different combinations of this should work.
There's also :debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
And the TP model # would help.
Regards
Glen
> Subject: Bootdisk for ThinkPad
> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 19:59:59 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> CC: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
>
> My Compaq died last Sunday, so I rented a replacement to take me to the
> LSP specification meeting this weekend. Well the short version is that it
> is an IBM ThinkPad, and the Debian 2.1 boot disks will not work. (root.bin
> gets loaded as does the kernel, but there it hangs without uncompressing
> the kernel)
>
> Can someone point me to a rescue disk for the ThinkPad? I can install Red
> Hat 6.1 and Caldera 2.3, but not Debian!
>
> Please CC me on your reply, as I am not subscribed to debian-user at this
> time.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dwarf
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