Greetings:
I tried out the new 2.4 boot floppies from ~blade/boot-floppies and
had no problems. This is the Thinkpad machine that originally had the
'white screen of death' problem and later, the crash in the base
install. I went through the whole process including base install from
the network a
I compiled dbootstrap with debug turned on, copied it onto my
partially installed system, and ran it. The immediate problem was:
An error occurred while loading application messages from
/etc/messages.trm
I looked, and there is no /etc/messages.trm; apparently the boot
floppies I used didn't hav
Greetings:
Sorry for pummeling the list with so many stupid questions, but I have
looked in all of the places that are obvious (to me) and I can't find
the source code for dbootstrap. I would like to build it myself in
such a way as to allow it to generate a proper core file (much more
useful to
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:49:51PM -0800, David Kimdon wrote:
> There appear to be two different bugs here.
>
> 1. white screen of death, at boot right as the installer is trying to
> start it keeps segfaulting. This happens on some machine and not on
> others, with some disks and not others.
>
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 08:43:03PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 06:39:35PM -0700, Mark Zimmerman wrote:
> > So, that leaves me ready to ftp in a copy of the base system .tgz
> > file. Has anyone built such a thing for woody? I couldn't find one.
>
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 04:31:44PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 01:58:22PM -0700, Mark Zimmerman wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 11:44:22AM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:29:09AM -0700, Mark Zimmerman wrote:
>
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 11:44:22AM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:29:09AM -0700, Mark Zimmerman wrote:
>
> > connection and plenty of mounted partitions. I tranferred an ftp
> > client and the curses and readline libraries to the system via floppy
&g
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 11:09:15AM +, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 04:06, Mark Zimmerman wrote:
> > One of my tests of dbootstrap (in trying to get past the white screen
> > of death) resulted in a register dump to the screen. I was wondering
> > wh
One of my tests of dbootstrap (in trying to get past the white screen
of death) resulted in a register dump to the screen. I was wondering
why it didn't dump core instead? Is this something related to how
dbootstrap is built or is it caused somehow by the installation
environment? I was hoping for
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 04:53:17PM +, Philip Blundell wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 16:44, Mark Zimmerman wrote:
> > Using the images from people.debian.org/~blade/bf2.4, I have gotten
> > past the white screen problem and I am now at the 'Install the Base
> > S
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 06:34:54PM -0700, Mark Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 11:22:51PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
>
> > > VT3 shows that dbootstrap is repeatedly starting and exiting.
> >
> > Could you try my CVS boot floppies from people.debian.org/~bl
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 05:45:07PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include
> Mark Zimmerman wrote on Fri Feb 08, 2002 um 08:39:07AM:
> > Greetings:
> >
> > I tried out a new installation on an IBM Thinkpad 560X with the bf2.4
>
> Which kind of VGA chipset is used
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 05:45:07PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include
> Mark Zimmerman wrote on Fri Feb 08, 2002 um 08:39:07AM:
> > Greetings:
> >
> > I tried out a new installation on an IBM Thinkpad 560X with the bf2.4
>
> Which kind of VGA chipset is used
Greetings:
I tried out a new installation on an IBM Thinkpad 560X with the bf2.4
boot floppies. It booted up and loaded root.bin without incident but
dbootstrap gave me a solid white screen with a blinking cursor in the
upper left corner. Hitting return caused the cursor to move down the
screen s
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