Tom said:
Try booting it with:
boot: bz2bzImage floppy=thinkpad
see if that helps.
No it didn't - hung at same point.
Robert said:
Your best bet would be to download the kernel.config from Toms website get the kernel source and toms patches. You then compile your own kernel by minimising the drivers that are compiled directly into the kernel:
NO ethernet drivers -- make the one the thinkpad uses a module. NO SCSI, turn the entire SCSI subsystem into modules. Remove anything else that isn't needed right now. -- I think this includes the floppy for 2.0.103, 'cause the ramdisk is loaded by lilo.
Can you please give me an url for "the kernel.config from Toms website" and "toms patches".
Also which version of the kernel is in 2.0.103? - I can't tell. (At least, it tells me a number I can't relate to regular versions I recognize).
I assume it is best to use the exact same kernel version as is on there now.
I did take a peek around on
http://not.toms.net/tomsrtbt-sources/
and found all kinds of interesting stuff but I don't know what specifically relates
to what I have on my 2.0.103.
Also where you said "I think this includes the floppy for 2.0.103,'cause the ramdisk is loaded by lilo" dumb question - wouldn't I need floppy support to be able to mount /dev/fd0u1722?
Lastly - umm - probably also pretty dumb - how will doing all of this fix my hang? Are you saying that by turning off any references to SCSI_PPA in the kernel config, that will suppress the auto-detect probe for the ppa's? I guess that makes sense but from looking at boot messages it seems to me that this auto-probing happens before modules got loaded - i.e. was controlled by something else?
John
