I've got a Thinkpad 600e that I'd like to install Slink on. Everything I've seen indicates that it should install fine with the tecra boot disks. I've tried tecra, tecra-safe, and the standard rescue disk, with various combinations of "floppy=thinkpad", "floppy=nodma", and "mem=62m" (it has 64).
Every single time, it reads root.bin and gets about a dozen . 's into loading Linux. At that point, it suddenly reboots (and does that all over again if I don't remove the floppy). I haven't had any other problems with this laptop and, after trying a couple new floppies from separate boxes and re-FTPing the disk image, I don't think it's either of those. I've never had problems with Debian/Slink on my desktops or a Compaq laptop. I use the floppy daily on NT, so I'm leaning toward the idea that it's probing some hardware (floppy drive?) that causes a reboot. I didn't find any mention of this problem in the list archives or a couple search engines except http://www.dgs.monash.edu.au/~greg/linux.html . This person seems to have the same problem but only with Debian. I'm about out of ideas. Has anyone seen this problem and found a solution? Thanks, Troy
