On 11-Jul-97 Timothy J. Miller wrote: > I'm attempting a new install on the ThinkPad 365XD w/800x600 >display, 40Mb RAM, CDROM and external floppy; at boot, the system reports >root.bin loaded, then linux, then it simply halts.
I thought that the consensus was that the 365XD cannot boot bzImages. I went the route of installing Debian 1.1 (with boot disks using zImages) and then upgrading. The most direct solution is to compile an appropriate zImage on a working Linux machine and add that to the boot floppy. > The ThinkPad 760LD is running an upgrade from Debian 1.2. I >didn't have any boot problems with the initial Debian 1.1 installation on >the 760LD, *or* with the complete reinstall I did with Debian 1.2. The >linux-2.0.30 without modifications; in the past it has also booted the >2.0.27, 28, and 29. > >From messages on this list, the 760LD works fine with the boot floppies. I would be interested in your experience with the 365XD if you get Debian installed. I have had troubles with sporadic kernel panics and other errors. Although I followed the instructions for upgrading from 1.2 to 1.3, I have ended up with a bad ldso package (probably through a kernel panic or other error that went unnoticed by me). Now I cannot use dpkg to successfully perform any act to rescue my system. So far, nobody on the debian-users list has been able to suggest a way to rescue the system. Maybe I will just have to reinstall from scratch - so much for the power of Debian on my Thinkpad. Paul Rightley --------------------------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
