Yes, it's a known problem with Toshiba's. You have to use the Tecra boot images. Unfortunately, my Toshiba won't boot that either. I've posted a question about this in several locations last week and have not gotten any responses. I have found, however, that it will boot the next level after Slink, known as Potato. But I haven't gotten it to recognize the CD-ROM drive. I'm a little disappointed about the complete lack of help on this issue, as I had heard so much about the supportive Linux community. Basically, I'd give up if I wasn't completely stubborn about these kind of things.
David -----Original Message----- From: J K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 9:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Problem of installation: first boot [tobshiba 4000cdt] I bought the Debian GNU/Linux Unleashed book planning to install Debian GNU/Linux on my laptop Toshiba 4000CDT. I had previously installed Redhat 6.0 before. I partitioned my hard drive using Partition Magic 4.0 in win98. On first boot with a floppy boot disk, there will be a message "Loading root.bin....... Boot failed". Tried the same thing on my desktop and the same message appears. On first boot with the cdrom, the welcome screen will appear as per normal, on pressing [Enter], the message "Loading root.bin....." followed by "Loading linux......" then the screen will blank out and the welcome screen will appear again. This keeps looping. I suspect that either the cdrom is defective or there is hardware command that I need to append to the boot prompt. Does anyone knows the solution to this? Regards, manowar -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://www.graffiti.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
