RE: [LUNI] Impossible Install on Thinkpad i 1300 1171 61u

From: Beach, Ken (kbeach@ldrind.com)
Date: Tue Mar 13 2001 - 08:46:13 CST

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    > From: Richard@RushLogistics.com [mailto:Richard@RushLogistics.com]
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    > For those of us who witnessed it at installfest today, we're still
    > scratching our heads, because for over four hours some of luni's best
    > and brightest -- myself not included -- toiled with getting the above
    > named thinkbad to boot into install mode. No matter if we
    > tried to boot
    > from the cd or from a boot floppy or whether we tried Redhat, Mandrake
    > or Slackware we continually got the error message: boot
    > failed. I know
    > I am leaving out some of the details that we encountered I was hoping
    > that some of the poor soul's who toiled with this problem and
    > who have a
    > much better understanding of what happened and what did not happen,
    > could fill in the blanks better that I. Once again, thank
    > you very much
    > to those who have helped so far. If anyone has any ideas
    > please submit
    > them.
    >

    I seem to recall for some Thinkpads there is a special switch for the floppy
    boot disk in order for the floppy install to boot correctly. I didn't have
    that problem with my antique 755c. I'll see if I can dig up the switches....

    Ken
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