On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 21:37:00 -0700 Alan Dayley wrote: > On Saturday 09 October 2004 08:28 pm, Dennis Kibbe wrote: > > > > There is a known issue with older Thinkpad floppy drives. Passing > > > > "floppy=thinkpad" > > > > to the kernel might be the answer. > > Thank you for the tip, Dennis. > > However, in this case, it did not solve but changed the issue. Attempted on > two of the Thinkpads. It did change the error message slightly. After > pressing enter to read the boot disk (Slackware has two install disks now so > it is really install.1), this is what it reports: > > VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER > > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 > VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER > > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 > VFS: Cannot open root device "fd0u1440" or 02:00 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00 > > At the boot prompt I gave the option: > > ramdisk floppy=thinkpad > > which looks right to me but then I am not a "Slacker" so how do I know. Maybe > I need to just try an older version. I have a Slackware 8 CD sitting around, > I may take a look at that. What do you think? > > Alan Alan, Don't know, but I'm rarely in favor of using an older distro. Why give up all that progress! This post might give you some ideas. Basically, booting a kernel on the hdd (rather than a floppy) seemed to have some success for this person. Dennisk --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss