I recently built the linux kernel, and ran across in the "General Setup" options the entry for 'MCA support', which apparently is a bus system similar to PCI or ISA, found only in some IBM PS/2 and laptop machines. I am wondering if your laptop belongs to this set of machines - if so, it would certainly explain the booting problems, since the Debian kernel is built with SCSI 2940 and ATAPI IDE support - but I don't know about the MCA support.
If this is the case, you'll need to build a floppy with a kernel that has support for this. On 09-Dec-98 Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: > Try looking at comments that people have made on the following URL - it is > one > of the best central stores of knowledge in getting linux to run on laptops: > > http://www.linux.org/hardware/laptop.html > > Have you installed debian on other pcs, so you are familiar with the general > Debian installation process ? > > Thanks ! > Geoff Brimhall > > On 01-Dec-00 Ignacio Garcia wrote: >> I have tried installing Linux on my ThinkPad 385 XD, but it hasn't >> worked. When I first tried to install it, I got a message tha said A20 >> gating failed. So I changed the boot-up disk that I was using, and now >> it goes through the initial motions of loading the kernel, then it >> restarts my computer. Any help would be appreciated. >> >> Cheers >> >> -- >> Ignacio Garcia-Nicoletti >> Network Administrator >> Grenville Christian College >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---------------------------------- > Status quo is, well, boring ! > ---------------------------------- ---------------------------------- Status quo is, well, boring ! ----------------------------------
