Re: Problems installing Debian on Compaq Armada M700.
You're welcome. The "rescue" disk is simply a generic boot kernel to
get your system running. Is your lilo.conf set to linear? Are you root
when you try and update the boot sector? What does the error say when
lilo can't install the boot sector.
On 09 Aug 2001 19:32:58 +0300, David Randelman wrote:
> Thanks for the tip. I know I don't have a boot sector protection, But on the
> other hand why should I have to have rescue disks at all?
> --David
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Heldebrant" <Heldebrant.Michael@mayo.edu>
> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 7:14 PM
> Subject: Re: Problems installing Debian on Compaq Armada M700.
>
>
> > Do you have "helpfull" boot sector protection turned on in the BIOS of
> > the machine? Are you loading the correct parallel port modules? You'll
> > need parport and a bunch of other ones. The kernel menuconfig should be
> > able to explain it to you better than I can pull it out of a hat.
> >
> > --mike
> >
> > On 09 Aug 2001 18:01:36 +0300, David Randelman wrote:
> > > I seem to be having problems installing Debian on my laptop Compaq M700,
> there seems to be 2 problems:
> > > 1) It won't install a boot manager on the HD even though I have a
> dedicated H.D and even tried to partition a 10MB drive in the beginning of
> the disk just in case.
> > > 2) I can't access the parallel floppy drive which comes with Compaq- It
> accesses but has problems reading or writing.
> > >
> > > I boot ok from the CD-ROM and I tried many different partition
> configurations.
> > > Any ideas? Anyone else encounter this?
> > > Cheers,
> > > --David Randelman
> >
> >
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