The only lead I had to a location for slink 1440 floppy images gives an error now. Maybe someone else will come up with a URL.
I'm afraid you will probably need someone with more in-depth knowledge than me to solve the problem. John Mark Weston wrote: > > On 10 Dec 98, at 11:17, John C. Ellingboe wrote: > > > Look at the message just before the md driver message for the > > problem. It will probably turn out to be the disk controler doesn't > > like being probed at boot time and is locking up. Some systems will > > require an entry on the "boot line" or use the tecra rescue disk like the > > lap top systems need. Search the archives at www.debian.org for the > > source of a new rescue disk if you have a aha27xx disk controler. You will > > also find sources of 1440 SLINK disks but I would not recomend them at > > this time. > > The line before the "md driver" line was the floppy controller detect, which > worked. And before that, was a perfectly correct detection of both IDE > controllers and all four devices on them. What I'll try is booting up with a > few more combinations of hardware device disabled, to see if this works. > > I've also tried the tecra disk, which does the same thing as the normal > one. > > Thanks for the warning about Slink, but I would like to at least try it (just > to see a Debian distribution boot at least once). If you've seen any > *compiled* Slink 1440k disks, perhaps you could point me in their > direction. > > > Don't try to install from SLINK at this time. Use HAMM which has 1440 > > floppy images. SLINK has turned up with a few problems and you don't need > > that while setting up a new system. > > > > John > > Thanks for the help > > Mark
