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

[Bob Deep <bobd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"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?

I don't know that it will help... But what kind of laptop (make and
model) do you have?

It *should* work, but we may need to build a special kernel for you for
your hardware.  Perhaps there are some differant boot images you could
try on the distro's you now have?

-= bob =-
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