On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 09:13:56PM +0100, Andrew Hayes wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm affraid I am a complete newbie when it comes to debian although I've > a bit of experience with other distros, so urm... yeah flame on I suppose :) > > I'm trying to install Debian 3.0 on to my rather old laptop, a Compaq > Presario 1220 as it's the only machine running Windows in the place and > I'm sick of W98 crashing when I'm in the middle of something. > > Anyway, my problem in a nutshell is the sucker won't boot when I use > anything other than the 'safe' 2.2.20 kernel! Vanilla 2.2.x & bf24 > install but die on the first and all subsequent reboots. > All of them seem to die during the RTC bit (where it says copying RTC to > system clock or words to that effect). > > It's not a major issue but I'd like to have sound and/or a more modern > kernel installed, I'm open to suggestions as to a fix or work around, > preferably one t hat doesn't involve replacing the laptop :)
Why don't you install the system with any kernel that works, then apt-get install kernel-source<whatever>, and build your own later-version kernel? The Debian Way is to use make-kpkg, look in the docs on www.debian.org for more info... Perhaps your laptop needs some specific workaround enabled in the kernel config? A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
