On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 17:59:15 -0500 John Greaton Wohlbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I have an inspiron 600m that I am trying to set up as a > dual boot with debian and XP. For now let me just say > that the debian boot process (from floppies) doesn't work > (apm bios not found, kernel panic, etc.). Before explaining > the problem in detail to this list or debian-boot > I would like a way to generate a log file of the boot messages. > Is there a way to generate such a log file? I don't think so as from your description these messages happen before there is any filesystem mounted that you could log to. The floppy you booted from isn't a proper filesystem. Have you tried the versions of the boot floppies with different kernels? There is one called safe which says it works around some buggy BIOSes and the ide-pci version doesn't have APM support so may work better on your hardware. See debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23-2002-05-21/images-1.44/ on your local debian mirror. Steve.
