I thought nate said there wasn't a floppy drive? Otherwise I saw prior posts explaining using a win98 boot disk to get to the cdrom, then loading the kernel successfully for installation. <--might help. justin
-----Original Message----- From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 9:15 AM To: nate Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: debian on IBM Thinkpad iseries (P3-500) nate wrote: > <quote who="Ross Burton"> > >>I have a IBM Thinkpad X22, and Potato will not boot due to a kernel bug. >>Try Woody boot floppies? > > > i just tried the woody netinst CD, and it gave the same thing, "Boot Failed" > > the boot loader doesn't even load, let alone the kernel. really weird. > > I guess i just won't use this laptop. I will try a toshiba 6400 see > if its any better. the video chip in this laptop isn't that hot > anyways. > > thanks! > > nate I've got access to a Gateway laptop that won't boot off the normal routes, but it will boot off a floppy made with the idepci kernel (http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/i mages-1.44/). So you might try a different kernel flavor. Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
