Thanks for the reply. Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | What kind of Thinkpad is this? Not all require the floppy=thinkpad
It's a 760EL. The floppy drive is external. | option. I believe the 365 family is one of those - it's been a while | since I installed Debian on a Thinkpad, but I think I'm correct here :) | | Also, when you rebuilt the kernel image, did you copy it to a floppy | with a cat or something, or did you make a lilo boot floppy? If you | went the cat route, I'm willing to bet that you're passing of the | floppy=thinkpad option on the rescue floppy is the problem, since a | generic kernel boot floppy doesn't accept boot options. [you say `rebuilt...'] The thinkpad runs NT now. I created the rescue disk by FTP'ing resc1440.bin and using cat (and later I tried dd) from my other box that runs Linux. I've tried both with and without floppy=thinkpad. I've tried at least 20 combinations (using 5-6 different diskettes, Debian 1.2 and the latest) over the last couple days. Interestingly, I built the 2.0.30 kernel for my other box and tried it in the thinkpad and *it* did get past the `loading linux....' message, it detected various devices and choked because (I vaguely recall) /dev/fd0 wasn't there. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
