On Tue, 09 Nov 1999, Michael Haarman wrote: I got the same problem. At my Toshiba it helped to turn off the cache in the BIOS-Setup. It is slow then, but You can start the machine and then first thing to do is to compile Your own kernel. Make sure, You compile a zImage and with this it worked perfect.
Matth > I just installed Debian 2.1r2, 2.0.36 kernel on a Toshiba Satellite > Pro 440CDX. I figured out I needed the "tecra" images, everything goes > like butter, installing from CD's. I built a custom boot disk after > install and prior to rebooting the first time; just in case, I intend > to build a custom kernel. > > On reboot, the POST happens, LILO (there is no Windows here, thank you) > and the Loading Linux . . . . . . . . . . . > > And the machine insists upon re-running the BIOS. It goes on like > this. Booting with the floppy I created does the same thing. I > scanned the digests here and saw nothing comparable; I've conned every > Toshiba Satellite related install brief I could find on the web. I > would reinstall but I'm not sure what I would/could do differently.
