On 22-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote: > > On 22-Feb-99 Shaleh wrote: >>> Any help would be very appreciated! :-) >>> (The debian user list is much friendlier >>> and supportive than Red Hat's :-) >> >> We try (= >> >> On my laptop it would reboot if I was not using a zImage kernel. The tecra >> disks should provide this kernel. If not, do you have another linux box? >> If >> so you could make your own boot disk. When you compile the kernel make sure >> you do make zImage (or if you use make-kpkg, add --zImage to the command >> line >> options). > > I have another Linux box that has a CDROM, so I was thinking I could install > through that machine (install on ThinkPad via the other machine). > Are you saying I can just copy my bzImage from one machine to a floppy and > then boot the ThinkPad with that? > > I have a bzImage, not a zImage, btw. >
NO, use a zImage kernel. Recompile one if need be. A bzImage will reboot on you.
