Re: problems with IBM Thinkpad
So, try to submit only
floppy -- without thinkpad
Maybe others know better than I do -- but starting the discussion often
helps others to get onto it.
Lukas
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Rainer Hahnekamp wrote:
> 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
>
> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> 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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