On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, James G. MacKinnon wrote: > I have been trying to help a colleague install Debian 2.0 on his ThinkPad > 600. Red Hat 5.0 previously installed fine. However, he has been unable to > boot from either the standard Debian 2.0 rescue disk or the Tecra rescue > disk.
It's probably the common 'bzimage' problem. You may want to contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the steps by which he got things to work. In a nutshell, you need to replace the linux file on the rescue disk with a kernel built with zimage and not bzimage, and then execute the rdev.sh shell script. >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Sep 1 10:39:34 1998 Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 14:03:58 +0900 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: some success on the thinkpad 770 ed front Resent-Date: 7 Aug 1998 05:16:52 -0000 Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; i now have a rescue disk that will boot for the thinkpad 770 ed :-) thanks to: Steve Hsieh George Bonser Greg Starkes Nathan Norman Brandon Mitchell for your help and comments. if i left anyone out, i apologize -- please let me know. i haven't gone through the whole installation process yet, but to summarize what was done so far: 1) make a vanilla hamm rescue disk (i made mine from an image dated 1998-07-21) 2) make a zImage that includes: -ramdisk -initrd (initial ramdisk -- this option appears once you've selected ramdisk -- at least via make menuconfig) -loop -msdos -fat -minix -elf -ext2fs -procfs (making a zImage involves 'make zImage' in the appropriate kernel sources directory -- note: if you stick too much in your kernel, it might not fit on your rescue floppy -- zImage ended up in /usr/src/linux-2.0.34/arch/i386/boot/ for me, your mileage may vary.) note: it might be necessary to make sure you match the kernel version of your zImage w/ that of the rescue disk -- i don't know if this really matters -- any comments? 3) copy the zImage to the rescue disk w/ the name 'linux' -- this overwrites the existing kernel image on the floppy. 4) w/ the rescue disk mounted, cd to the floppy's root (this will likely be /mnt or /floppy) and execute the rdev.sh shell script note: these steps are outlined in the readme.txt file on the rescue disk (as pointed out by Brandon Mitchell) thanks again for all your help! -sen btw, as Greg Starkes pointed out, floppy=thinkpad does not seem to be necessary.