AW: problems with IBM Thinkpad
Because this stands in the help file of the rescue disc. When I press enter, the computer boots normally and orders then the disc with the root image. Then he crashes with the error message: "Can't boot kernel at 02:00".
-Rainer Hahnekamp
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Von: Lukas Ruf [mailto:ruf@tik.ee.ethz.ch]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2001 17:23
An: Rainer Hahnekamp
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Betreff: Re: problems with IBM Thinkpad
When you boot from the floppy disk, why do you wanna pass the option
floppy=thinkpad ? Press simply enter -- what happens then?
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Rainer Hahnekamp wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I want to install the Debian distribution on my IBM ThinkPad 486/75 MHz. At
> first I wanted to create a dual boot system with MS-DOS & Linux, but got
> some problems during the installation. Now I deleted all my partitions and
> booted from the Rescue disc, because I can only use floppy discs. As the
> help file says I pass the parameter floppy=thinkpad to the installation
> process, but after that I get the error message: "Could not find kernel
> image: floppy=t.hin".
> As disc image I used the one from
> http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/
> images-1.44/rescue.bin
> Can somebody help me please?
>
> -Rainer Hahnekamp
>
> P.S.: This is the third time I post this message, but I could not find it in
> your newsgroup If the reason is a problem with my newsreader program I
> apologize in advance for posting so often.
>
Probably because there is a FAQ ?
--lpr
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