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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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