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

[Steven Saner <ssaner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had a problem somewhat similar to this, but it was with a different
laptop. I don't know if yours could be similar or not. I have an older
IBM Thinkpad: 360 CSE and I was installing Slackware. I would get the
welcome screen with the boot: prompt. If I would hit enter (as normal)
it would go for a while and then hang (I can't remember the error). In
my case, I found some documentation that the Thinkpad does not detect
floppy disk changes the same as most other machines do. To fix it, at
the boot: prompt I needed to type "floppy=thinkpad" and that fixed the
problem.

Again, this may have nothing to do with your situation, but the
symptoms where similar enough I thought I would share it :-)


On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 09:29:53AM -0600, Cory T. Lamb wrote:
> here are the specs on the laptop:
> Compaq Contura 420c
> 540 MB HDD
> 24 MB RAM
> 486 DX 75
> WD9504 video card
> 
> anything else?
> Thanks for the help.
> ~Cory
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> On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Bob Deep wrote:
> 
> > "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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