I had a similar problem with an AST M series laptop. Turned out it was the way Debian compile the kernel for the distribution. Try compliling your own kernel and make sure you make a zImage kernel rather than a bzImage kernel and hopefully you should be OK.
Pat On Thu Jan 14, 1999 at 06:43:45PM +0000, tracheotomy bob wrote: > Hallo all, > I relly hope you can help me with this REALLY annoying problem. I recently > bought > a Sony VAIO 747 (impulse) and I want to put Debian on it (I have 2.0 (hamm)). > I can put Red Hat 5.1 on it easily. But Debian is a bitch. Sometimes it > starts and > sometimes it doesn't. It loads the root.bin alright but after loading most of > the kernel, the laptop > reboots. Sometimes it doesn't. > If it does start then I can install the CD OK, but on the reboot I get a 1FA > prompt. > If I press 1 for /dev/hda then I get a prompt of 1234F. > It doesn't what I do the machine will not start with Debian on it. Red Hat > works > perfectly so it's not the hardware. If the CD boots then I'm assuming that > the kernel works OK > with the hardware, but the fact that it aborts during the 'loading kernel' > stage is suspect. > I'm inclined to think that it may be the way lilo is operation. Red Hat seems > to install lilo into /dev/hda and debian seems to install to /dev/hda1. Maybe > I'm wrong > here I could use that cleared up. > Anyway, any help with this will be much appreciated. > > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
