Re: [aclug-L] My laptop won't boot an install disk.

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A few things you might try:

1) what sort of laptop is it?

2) write to linux-laptop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with as much information as
possible (kernel version, which disksets, which exact laptop, how much RAM,
what type of CPU, etc.)

This might be out of our collective expertise in this list, unfortunately.

John

On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 07:03:22PM -0600, Cory T. Lamb wrote:

> I just got a laptop and it doesn't seem to want to boot it will show me
> the welcome screen... Then boot: at the bottom...  Then when I press enter
> to have it boot it only gets three dots before it blows chunks and tells
> me that boot has failed.  I have tried 5 different Distrobutions each with
> several different floppy disks and nothing seems to work.  Is there any
> possible solution to get linux on my box?
> TIA,
> ~Cory
> 
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