Re: problems with IBM Thinkpad
I have Thinkpad 230Cs Intel 486 DX4 50MHz running Debian/potato happyly
and I am writing this from it.
First, I know this "floppy=thinkpad" in documentation but I never used
it to install potato. Your Thinkpad must be a islightly newer one
considering 50% faster CPU. So be open minded about this.
Back to your question. Did you do following as first trial?
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At first "boot:", press enter while having RESCUE disk in floppy.
Let system boot!!
Then you will be asked to install "root floppy disk" and insert root
floppy disk and press enter.
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If it did not work, I guess you have to follow documentation.
Please do following as 2nd trial.
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boot: linux floppy=thinkpad
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I think you forgot to type "linux". Boot parameter start as
boot-method parameter=value
As seen on F3-screen at boot. "parameter=value" is called argument.
Rest shall be same as above.
Good luck Linuxing.... :-)
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On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 06:10:54PM +0200, 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".
> > 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?
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