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Dave White

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Sep 25, 1998, 3:00:00 AM9/25/98
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Hello Everyone,

The Rescue/boot floppy locks up after the following:

Loading root.bin ............
Loading linux .........
< here is where it locks up

-I've formatted three different floppies
-downloaded resc1440.bin from two different sites
-tried "linux floppy=thinkpad" with same result

I used rawrite2.exe to write image to floppy.

I've installed Slackware & Redhat with no problems....

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Regards...Dave


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Noel Yap

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Sep 26, 1998, 3:00:00 AM9/26/98
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Dave White wrote:
> The Rescue/boot floppy locks up after the following:
>
> Loading root.bin ............
> Loading linux .........
> < here is where it locks up
>
> -I've formatted three different floppies
> -downloaded resc1440.bin from two different sites
> -tried "linux floppy=thinkpad" with same result

You neglected to say what your system actually was. If it's a ThinkPad,
try using the "Tecra" disk images. You shouldn't need to use the
`floppy=thinkpad' option on the more recent ThinkPads.

Noel

Dave White

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Sep 26, 1998, 3:00:00 AM9/26/98
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Noel Yap wrote:
>
> Dave White wrote:
> > The Rescue/boot floppy locks up after the following:
> >
> > Loading root.bin ............
> > Loading linux .........
> > < here is where it locks up
> >
> > -I've formatted three different floppies
> > -downloaded resc1440.bin from two different sites
> > -tried "linux floppy=thinkpad" with same result
>
> You neglected to say what your system actually was. If it's a ThinkPad,
> try using the "Tecra" disk images. You shouldn't need to use the
> `floppy=thinkpad' option on the more recent ThinkPads.
>
It's a ThinkPad 760EL and using the "Tecra" disks did the trick!

Thanks for the input!

Regards,

Dave

Nathan E Norman

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Sep 26, 1998, 3:00:00 AM9/26/98
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On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Noel Yap wrote:

: Dave White wrote:
: > The Rescue/boot floppy locks up after the following:
: >
: > Loading root.bin ............
: > Loading linux .........
: > < here is where it locks up
: >
: > -I've formatted three different floppies
: > -downloaded resc1440.bin from two different sites
: > -tried "linux floppy=thinkpad" with same result
:
: You neglected to say what your system actually was. If it's a ThinkPad,
: try using the "Tecra" disk images. You shouldn't need to use the
: `floppy=thinkpad' option on the more recent ThinkPads.

On very recent Thinkpads (a 380Z I just got Thursday) the tecra boot
disk causes a "A20 gating failed" error on boot. The normal rescue disk
image just just the looping reboot we're used to :)

I haven't yet had time to investigate this further.

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