RE: zdisk boots, bzdisk won't - Thinkpad 560

[Pollywog]

On 25-Oct-99 John Miskinis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have noticed that when I create a boot floppy with "make zdisk"
> it will boot, but when using "make bzdisk" it will not.  I had to
> use the "tecra" rescue and driver disks when installing, and
> I wonder if this is somehow related to the IBM Thinkpad 560.
> 
> Or, is there something else going on in the picture?

Laptops don't like compressed kernels; I cannot use 'make bzImage' on my
ThinkPad 560.

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Andrew

Re: zdisk boots, bzdisk won't - Thinkpad 560

[Ed Samour]

> Any info, or pointers to it would be helpful,

Hi. Here's some info that may help you. Instead of using make zImage try the
following:

dd if=/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k   
rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hdXX

Where XX is the name of your main linux partition. Let me know if that works 
you. 


Ed Samour
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zdisk boots, bzdisk won't - Thinkpad 560

[John Miskinis]

Hello,

I have noticed that when I create a boot floppy with "make zdisk"
it will boot, but when using "make bzdisk" it will not.  I had to
use the "tecra" rescue and driver disks when installing, and
I wonder if this is somehow related to the IBM Thinkpad 560.

Or, is there something else going on in the picture?

Any info, or pointers to it would be helpful,

John

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