Do you have "helpfull" boot sector protection turned on in the BIOS of the machine? Are you loading the correct parallel port modules? You'll need parport and a bunch of other ones. The kernel menuconfig should be able to explain it to you better than I can pull it out of a hat.
--mike On 09 Aug 2001 18:01:36 +0300, David Randelman wrote: > I seem to be having problems installing Debian on my laptop Compaq M700, > there seems to be 2 problems: > 1) It won't install a boot manager on the HD even though I have a dedicated > H.D and even tried to partition a 10MB drive in the beginning of the disk > just in case. > 2) I can't access the parallel floppy drive which comes with Compaq- It > accesses but has problems reading or writing. > > I boot ok from the CD-ROM and I tried many different partition configurations. > Any ideas? Anyone else encounter this? > Cheers, > --David Randelman
