A laptop installation challenge
On a previous thread, I had polled some advice on the best way to
install Debian on an old laptop that lacked a CD drive. A number of
suggestions were made and I eventually went with the idea of changing
the pre-existing /boot/lilo.conf and adding a newly downloaded vmlinuz
and init.gz Then I copied a netinst *.iso image onto a USB stick and booted.
All went well, and I was able to install a new Debian system. However,
when I went to reboot into the system I received the "EBDA is big;
kernel setup stack overlaps LILO second stage" message. Googling this
message throws back a number of suggested solutions which break down
into one of two choices - changing the lilo.conf file (difficult since I
cannot get into the lilo.conf due to the system having been locked at
boot up) and using a rescue CD (difficult because it has no CD drive to
work with). I cannot ssh into the laptop because it hasn't booted and
so I am left with a laptop that cannot boot, cannot use a CD disk to
boot and which is fundamentally useless.
Can anyone suggest a way that I can get this thing to boot given the
significant constraints described or has this now been reduced to a hunk
of plastic for use as a doorstop?
Thanks for any ideas.
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