Thanks Tony,
The boot up sysytem on my laptop was installed last year at the Avalon surf club
Instalfest.
The hard disk was partitioned using partition Magic 6 and Linux loaded onto half of it
leaving Windows98 on the rest. It froze up when the kids were playing a game under
windows.
The startup sequence was: switch on, the Toshiba screen, the words on a black
background "stage1" (pause, then next to it) "stage2", then a colored window with text:
What operating system do you want to use?:
Windows
Linux
Floppy
Now it is: switch on, the Toshiba screen, then "stage1 _" with the underscore blinking.
It does reads the floppy first and the diagnostics have performed the check on media
descriptor, FAT, dir structure, file system, free space and surface scan.
I am not sure what to do after that when I get the A:>
I have copied the tomsrtbt to a hard disk BUT I have not made a floppy disk 'toolkit'
out of it I am my wife's work computer that does not allow me to shut and restart in
MS-DOS.
Any suggestions would be appreciated,
yours,
Stephen Mouat
----- Original Message -----
From: Tony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 05 Jul 2002 14:15:55 +1000
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Fwd: Linux boot problem]
> Forward this onto the main list to get multiple eyes on it.
>
> Can you take us through the messages you get when the machine reboots.
> I'm trying to figure out where you're getting to, but the StageI message
> doesn't ring any bells.
>
> I would say that you need to use a boot disk to do some repairs, which
> is what you have (tomsrtbt).
>
> In answer to your question, a tar or tar ball is an archive of files
> (similar to a zip in windows land).
>
> Can anyone offer a suggestion to Stephen?
>
> Greeno
>
> -----Forwarded Message-----
>
> > From: Stephen Mouat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Linux boot problem
> > Date: 04 Jul 2002 07:06:19 -0500
> >
> > Dear Tony,
> > Thanks for the invitation on Last Friday to get some help from you. I thought I
>sent an email Sat. but I don't think it worked.
> > I am having the problem that my unit will not boot up . Hard disk is partioned in
>half and I have windows and Linux debian. The start-up used to ask what os I wanted.
> There were some suggestions from others at the meeting: I have tried to download
>tomsrtbt to make a boot disk and that is beyond me (what is Tar and tarball?),
>without having my hand held along the way.
> > I cannot type fdisk at the Linux prompt (I cannot even get a Linux prompt). All I
>get is "StageI" and a blinking cursor.
> > Yours in appreciation,
> > Stephen Mouat
> >
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