Re: Low memory install on an IBM Thinkpad 700

[Elrond]

Since the debian bootdisks are SYSLINUX disks, just mount them (MSDOS
FAT12 filesystem), take the kernel out of the tecra bootdisk and copy it
over the kernel in the lowmem bootdisk.

This is how a friend of mine which installed 2.0 did on his tp700.
Regards
raph

> On Fri, 19 May 2000, A.C. Almeida wrote:
> >
> > we are talking about a ThinkPad 700;  normal lowmem-bootdisk won't boot,
> > because of Micro Channel and ESDI driver. TP 700 needs the special one
> > for Tecras and there is no "lowmem" image available... 
> > 
> DOH! ;)
> 
> I would guess the only thing you could try is to take the normal lowmem
> boot disk, recompile a new, suitable, kernel on some machine with linux 
> and patch that over the disk.  I (obviously) don't know the details for
> tecra setup's however I sure someone here knows the neccessary tweaks
> required.
> 
> Alex
> 
> 

Re: Low memory install on an IBM Thinkpad 700

[Alexander Clouter]

On Fri, 19 May 2000, A.C. Almeida wrote:
>
> we are talking about a ThinkPad 700;  normal lowmem-bootdisk won't boot,
> because of Micro Channel and ESDI driver. TP 700 needs the special one
> for Tecras and there is no "lowmem" image available... 
> 
DOH! ;)

I would guess the only thing you could try is to take the normal lowmem
boot disk, recompile a new, suitable, kernel on some machine with linux 
and patch that over the disk.  I (obviously) don't know the details for
tecra setup's however I sure someone here knows the neccessary tweaks
required.

Alex

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Re: Low memory install on an IBM Thinkpad 700

[A.C. Almeida]

Alexander Clouter schrieb:
On Thu, 18 May 2000, A.C. Almeida wrote:
>
> But newer (>2.x) debian bootdisks won't boot with 4MB. Try debian
1.3.1
> and the patched bootdisk at ftp://ftp.dgmicro.com
>  
.
>
nonsense.  I've booted up a old 486SL-33 with 4Mb laptop with
the low
memory boot disks.  works fine!  just make sure you download
the low
memory ones and everything will be fine, the ones off the slink (debian
2.1) cd work fine.
 
we are talking about a ThinkPad 700;  normal lowmem-bootdisk
won't boot, because of Micro Channel and ESDI driver. TP 700 needs the
special one for Tecras and there is no "lowmem" image available...
tschau
Antonio ;)
 
Alex
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Re: Low memory install on an IBM Thinkpad 700

[Alexander Clouter]

On Thu, 18 May 2000, A.C. Almeida wrote:
>
> But newer (>2.x) debian bootdisks won't boot with 4MB. Try debian 1.3.1
> and the patched bootdisk at ftp://ftp.dgmicro.com
>   . 
> 
nonsense.  I've booted up a old 486SL-33 with 4Mb laptop with the low
memory boot disks.  works fine!  just make sure you download the low
memory ones and everything will be fine, the ones off the slink (debian
2.1) cd work fine.

Alex


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Re: Low memory install on an IBM Thinkpad 700

[A.C. Almeida]

Hi,
your problem is fdisk -l . fdisk doesn't find any harddrive;
you have to enter fdisk /dev/eda. But standard debian bootdisks fail after
first restart. See debian-bug #62623...
But newer (>2.x) debian bootdisks won't boot with 4MB. Try debian 1.3.1
and the patched bootdisk at ftp://ftp.dgmicro.com .
You find them on my homepage too: http://www.geocities.com/oer.almeida
. There is a little howto for linux on my TP 700 too :))
 
bye
Antonio
Jerome schrieb:

The trouble I have
encountered centers around the microchannel ESDI hard drive controller.
I must first give props to the folks at Debian, as their loader was the
only one to correctly fish the hard drive geometry correctly from the bios/controller,
every other distro I've tried gives bogus numbers. I'm using the low memory
install disk from the latest stable Debian distribution (only 4MB of ram,
3,904kb after shadow ram takes its toll). When the kernel hits the ESDI
controller, several strange things happen: Partition
check:PS/2 ESDI: integrated ESDI adapter found in
slot 1PS/2 ESDI: DMA arbitration level: 7PS/2
ESDI: hard reset...
**can hear an audible "click" from the hard drivePS/2
ESDI: Attention error. interrupt status: 0FPS/2 ESDI:
status: 08PS/2 ESDI: Device Configuration Status for
drive 0PS/2 ESDI: Spares/cyls: 2PS/2
ESDI: Config bits: Zero Defect, Skewed Format, Non-Removable, RetriesPS/2
ESDI: Number of RBA's 245760PS/2 ESDI: Physical number
of cylinders: 120, Sectors/Track: 32, Heads: 64 eda:
eda1 eda2 eda3 At this point, the partition menu
comes up, but when I go to define partitions etc. it says I have no drives.
I have 3 partitions on the drive which I created using partition magic
(eda1 = dos, eda2 = ext2, eda3 = linux swap) which the kernel can see during
boot yet can't do anything with. I haven't been able to get past this point
(I've tried MANY different methods for booting) and am beginning to wonder
if Linux will even load on this system. Are there boot-time parameters
I have to add in order for this to work correctly? Jeremy