Re: Linux install on a Think Pad 360

On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 21:37:00 -0700
Alan Dayley <alandd@consultpros.com> 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


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