I get the same thing on my 560x with the Tecra disks. I'm also having problems even making a boot floppy through the installation process. It either gives gives an immediate error message "creation of boot floppy failed..." or it spins around for awhile checking things and then fails. And I have tried several disks at this point (all of which work on the desktop). The one time it did work, it created the reboot-a-round. Is the installation program (or Debian) particularly sensitive to the floppies? I hear much about "bad" floppies, but other OSes don't seem to be bothered by them.
Any ideas? Btw, it seems like this is a pretty common occurrence with the Thinkpads. Maybe once this gets figured out, we should write up something for the FAQ-o-matic. I'll do it if I can get some people to check it for me. Thanks! Robert "Dale E. Martin" wrote: > Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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). > > So, I'm trying to boot a Thinkpad 600e, and with the "normal" disk it > reboots. The bzImage explains that. But, with the tecra-safe disk I get > "A20 gating failed" or something like that. This is with or without > "floppy=thinkpad". > > Ideas? > > Thanks, > Dale > -- > +------------------------- pgp key available --------------------------+ > | Dale E. Martin | Clifton Labs, Inc. | Senior Computer Engineer | > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.clifton-labs.com | > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
