Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)

1998-08-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: People that reply to themselves are the bane of civilisation. having said that ... [ snip ] : If you have a Linux box handy (and you must if you're creating images) : you must mount the rescue floppy on /mnt and run `/mnt/rdev/sh' after Obviously, thi

Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)

1998-08-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 7 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ snip ] : > Stupid question, but did you run all the appropriate rdev commands that : > the bootdisk kernel needs? (You can find them in the rdev.sh file on : > the rescue disk) : : not a stupid question at all! i've never successfully made a rescue

Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)

1998-08-07 Thread sen_ml
At around Fri, 07 Aug 1998 11:53:03 +0900, [I] may have mentioned: > At around Thu, 6 Aug 1998 21:32:57 -0400 (EDT), > Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> may have mentioned: > > > > > Stupid question, but did you run all the appropriate rdev commands that > > > > the bootdisk kernel needs? (

Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)

1998-08-07 Thread sen_ml
At around Thu, 6 Aug 1998 21:32:57 -0400 (EDT), Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> may have mentioned: > > > Stupid question, but did you run all the appropriate rdev commands that > > > the bootdisk kernel needs? (You can find them in the rdev.sh file on > > > the rescue disk) > > > > not a

Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)

1998-08-07 Thread Brandon Mitchell
> > Stupid question, but did you run all the appropriate rdev commands that > > the bootdisk kernel needs? (You can find them in the rdev.sh file on > > the rescue disk) > > not a stupid question at all! i've never successfully made a rescue > disk before so any tips and comments are greatly app

Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)

1998-08-07 Thread sen_ml
At around Thu, 6 Aug 1998 14:01:54 -0500 (CDT), Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> may have mentioned: > On Thu, 6 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > : At around Thu, 06 Aug 1998 18:15:20 +0900, > : I may have mentioned: > : > : [discussion about installing debian on a thinkpad 770 ed snip

Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)

1998-08-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : At around Thu, 06 Aug 1998 18:15:20 +0900, : I may have mentioned: : : [discussion about installing debian on a thinkpad 770 ed snipped] : : > i just realized that i'd been using a 2.0.35 zimage on a 2.0.34 rescue : > disk...perhaps this was the cau

Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)

1998-08-06 Thread Greg Starkes
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At around Wed, 5 Aug 1998 23:52:16 -0700 (PDT), > George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> may have mentioned: > > > > > What kind of error are you getting? > > for old hamm disks (i made these this may): > > boot: linux floppy=thinkpad > Loading root.bi

Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)

1998-08-06 Thread sen_ml
At around Thu, 06 Aug 1998 18:15:20 +0900, I may have mentioned: [discussion about installing debian on a thinkpad 770 ed snipped] > i just realized that i'd been using a 2.0.35 zimage on a 2.0.34 rescue > disk...perhaps this was the cause of the initial console error message. > i am recompiling

Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)

1998-08-06 Thread sen_ml
At around Thu, 06 Aug 1998 17:33:02 +0900, I may have mentioned: > At around Thu, 6 Aug 1998 04:27:31 -0400 (EDT), > Steve Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> may have mentioned: > > > The only way we were able to get our thinkpad to boot debian was to > > rebuild the kernel using 'make zimage' instead o

Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)

1998-08-06 Thread sen_ml
At around Thu, 6 Aug 1998 04:27:31 -0400 (EDT), Steve Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> may have mentioned: > The only way we were able to get our thinkpad to boot debian was to > rebuild the kernel using 'make zimage' instead of 'bzimage'. The tecra fix > doesn't work for 2.0.34 or above for us. The ot

Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)

1998-08-06 Thread Steve Hsieh
The only way we were able to get our thinkpad to boot debian was to rebuild the kernel using 'make zimage' instead of 'bzimage'. The tecra fix doesn't work for 2.0.34 or above for us. The other alternative is to use the development 2.1.1xx kernel. A make zimage for that does work. On Thu, 6 Au

Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)

1998-08-06 Thread sen_ml
At around Thu, 6 Aug 1998 00:26:04 -0700 (PDT), George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> may have mentioned: > On Thu, 6 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > boot: linux floppy=thinkpad > > Loading root.bin. > > Loading linux.. > > A20 gating failed > > > > [system hangs --

Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)

1998-08-06 Thread sen_ml
At around Wed, 5 Aug 1998 23:52:16 -0700 (PDT), George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> may have mentioned: > > What kind of error are you getting? for old hamm disks (i made these this may): boot: linux floppy=thinkpad Loading root.bin. Loading linux.. [disk spins w/ no progress, top o

daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)

1998-08-06 Thread sen_ml
hi- i'm trying to install debian on a thinkpad 770 ed w/ no luck. neither floppy=thinkpad nor the tecra disks (latest i've tried are dated july 21st) worked for me. i'm not complaining or anything, but this is my fourth post to this list this week -- i was wondering if anyone had any sugge