Hi David, On checking the achieves of this mailing list, I have found a thread which might help you and me.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop-9911/threads.html The thread is "boot..reboot...reboot...". There are several suggested ideas there. Regards, manowar -----Original Message----- From: "David Scott Goen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 22:34:41 -0500 To: "J K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Problem of installation: first boot [tobshiba 4000cdt] > 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] > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://www.graffiti.net
