Unidentified subject!
First I will start by saying that I am a new linux user. I have installed the debian operating system on my IBM 365XD. However, when I try to boot the system it just hangs after "LILO loading linux". Additionally my debian boot floppy doesn't work either (maybe because of the external floppy?). Anyway, I had to make a windows 98 boot floppy which has loadlin.exe and linux on it. the autoexec.bat file executes loadlin.exe ie. " a:\loadlin.exe a:\linux root=/dev/hda1" . This is th only way I could boot my system. How can I fix things so that I can boot directly from hard disk (/dev/hda1)? If anyone has any ideas that I could use to fix this problem, your help would be appreciated David Goodyear
Trouble booting debian on IBM 365XD?
First I will start by saying that I am a new linux user. I have installed the debian operating system on my IBM 365XD. However, when I try to boot the system it just hangs after "LILO loading linux". Additionally my debian boot floppy doesn't work either (maybe because of the external floppy?). Anyway, I had to make a windows 98 boot floppy which has loadlin.exe and linux on it. the autoexec.bat file executes loadlin.exe ie. " a:\loadlin.exe a:\linux root=/dev/hda1" . This is th only way I could boot my system. How can I fix things so that I can boot directly from hard disk (/dev/hda1)? If anyone has any ideas that I could use to fix this problem, your help would be appreciated David Goodyear
Re: ThinkPad 356XD
>Finally decided to try Debian for the first time, and have run into a >major problem. When "loading Linux" the system hangs up. this happens >both when booting from a floppy and when rebooting from the hard drive. >if I run the boot.bat file on the CD the system comes alive and installs >the kernel, then procedes to let me configure the system. On reboot >things go ary. I have found several posts on newsgroups about this same >problem, but no answers. Thanks in advance. > >Jason Laster > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Heres what I did. I had a windows 98 boot floppy. I copied command.com, config.sys, and autoexec.bat from the windows boot disk to a new floppy. copy the linux kernel and loadlin (.exe?) files (in /boot directory of the CD distribution) from your debian disks (if you installed from CD) onto the floppy with the other files (config.sys, etc.) change the first line of the autoexec.bat file to: a:\loadlin.exe a:\linux root=/dev/hda1 (if this is where root is). This may boot your machine. It worked for me. Booting from a floppy all of the time became a bit annoying, so I installed the 2.2.1 kernel source from the CDs and recompiled with APM. After this everything was fine. I boot from hard disk, and have alot of nice features working now , including standby, and suspend mode for advanced power management. Let me know how it goes, David.
Hibernation
I have an IBM 365XD running 2.2.1 kernel. I have recompiled the kernel to support APM. I have been reading several websites that state that in order to use the hibernation feature on my laptop I have to create a dos partition on which a hibernation file can be saved. Unfortunately, I have all of my hard drive space used for my linux and swap partitions. Is there a simple way to add a new partition so I can use the hibernation feature on my laptop? Or does anyone know of another way which can be used to invoke hibernation using my current setup? (ie without having to repartition my HD). I hope that someone can offer some insight. David
Unidentified subject!
First I will start by saying that I am a new linux user. I have installed the debian operating system on my IBM 365XD. However, when I try to boot the system it just hangs after "LILO loading linux". Additionally my debian boot floppy doesn't work either (maybe because of the external floppy?). Anyway, I had to make a windows 98 boot floppy which has loadlin.exe and linux on it. the autoexec.bat file executes loadlin.exe ie. " a:\loadlin.exe a:\linux root=/dev/hda1" . This is th only way I could boot my system. How can I fix things so that I can boot directly from hard disk (/dev/hda1)? If anyone has any ideas that I could use to fix this problem, your help would be appreciated David Goodyear
Trouble booting debian on IBM 365XD?
First I will start by saying that I am a new linux user. I have installed the debian operating system on my IBM 365XD. However, when I try to boot the system it just hangs after "LILO loading linux". Additionally my debian boot floppy doesn't work either (maybe because of the external floppy?). Anyway, I had to make a windows 98 boot floppy which has loadlin.exe and linux on it. the autoexec.bat file executes loadlin.exe ie. " a:\loadlin.exe a:\linux root=/dev/hda1" . This is th only way I could boot my system. How can I fix things so that I can boot directly from hard disk (/dev/hda1)? If anyone has any ideas that I could use to fix this problem, your help would be appreciated David Goodyear
Re: ThinkPad 356XD
>Finally decided to try Debian for the first time, and have run into a >major problem. When "loading Linux" the system hangs up. this happens >both when booting from a floppy and when rebooting from the hard drive. >if I run the boot.bat file on the CD the system comes alive and installs >the kernel, then procedes to let me configure the system. On reboot >things go ary. I have found several posts on newsgroups about this same >problem, but no answers. Thanks in advance. > >Jason Laster > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Heres what I did. I had a windows 98 boot floppy. I copied command.com, config.sys, and autoexec.bat from the windows boot disk to a new floppy. copy the linux kernel and loadlin (.exe?) files (in /boot directory of the CD distribution) from your debian disks (if you installed from CD) onto the floppy with the other files (config.sys, etc.) change the first line of the autoexec.bat file to: a:\loadlin.exe a:\linux root=/dev/hda1 (if this is where root is). This may boot your machine. It worked for me. Booting from a floppy all of the time became a bit annoying, so I installed the 2.2.1 kernel source from the CDs and recompiled with APM. After this everything was fine. I boot from hard disk, and have alot of nice features working now , including standby, and suspend mode for advanced power management. Let me know how it goes, David.
Hibernation
I have an IBM 365XD running 2.2.1 kernel. I have recompiled the kernel to support APM. I have been reading several websites that state that in order to use the hibernation feature on my laptop I have to create a dos partition on which a hibernation file can be saved. Unfortunately, I have all of my hard drive space used for my linux and swap partitions. Is there a simple way to add a new partition so I can use the hibernation feature on my laptop? Or does anyone know of another way which can be used to invoke hibernation using my current setup? (ie without having to repartition my HD). I hope that someone can offer some insight. David
