Thanks again, Rick. I've just tried again: For each of three brand new diskettes, I put resc1440.bin on it from my Linux box using dd (first with dd-3.16, later using dd-3.12, and then cat) to write the disks, then tried to boot with it.
Same result: hangs after the `loading linux...........' message. Then, thinking maybe my fd is flaky, I resorted to using windows NT on the thinkpad to get rawrite.exe and resc1440.bin, and created the `rescue' floppy using the thinkpad's drive. Tried again... same result. Can someone out there who knows thinkpads tell me if the BIOS things suggested in docs need to be done? I couldn't figure out how to change any of them, but nothing in the docs made me think those things were critical. Holding down DEL at boot put me in some sort of low level testing interface. I'm wondering if this is due to something Debian specific. Yesterday, I got and built a kernel (for my Linux box) from ftp.cs.Helsinki.FI:/pub/Software/Linux/Kernel/v2.0/linux-2.0.30.tar.gz and put zImage on a floppy. When I tried *that* floppy in the thinkpad, it uncompressed linux, detected lots of devices and choked much later because the hard disk wasn't partitioned/formatted as it expected. Regards, Jim Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | In the instructions there is a possible explaination. Unless those disks | are flawless it will lock just as you have described. It's happened to | me. Sometimes you have to go through a few disks before you find a good | one. This is because DOS is more forgiving of flaws in a floppy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
