ThinkPad Question

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Ahh, this is the 'floppy=thinkpad' bug.  You need to supply that
option to LILO in order to flip the bits properly to get Linux to
talk to the old thinkpad floppy devices.

-derek

Mark <mtolman at cyberdude.com> writes:

> 
> MCA is supported in 2.2.x.  My problem is that I can boot 2.2.x and see the
> harddrive, but I don't have a root partition on it yet and can't fdisk or
> mount it with out one (catch 22).  I've tried creating one on floppy and
> booting it, but I get VFS errors.  I clearly need more research on creating
> a 2.2.x boot floppy and root partition disk on a 2.0.36 machine.
> 
> It's an old 720.
> 
> Thanks
> Mark
> 
> At 09:24 AM 3/26/99 -0800, you wrote:
> >I think that you might find that micro channel isn't supported, though (
> >if my feeble memory is working correctly today )
> >
> >Charley
> >
> >Sheldon Dubrowin wrote:
> >> 
> >> This web site has linux specifics for laptops and also has a section
> >> where it lists laptops and special things that may need to be done to
> >> get linux to work on them.  There are also a couple howtos in there.
> >> 1 stop shopping for your linux configurations! 8)
> >> 
> >>         Shel
> >> 
> >> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
> >> 
> >> On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 10:42:04PM -0500, Mark Tolman wrote:
> >> > I have a Micro Channel Thinkpad on which I would like to load Linux
> >> > 2.2.x.  I am having a hard time getting started.  I have attempted
> >> > creating 2.2.x boot disks from my RedHat installation, I have done a
> >> > 'make zdisk', I have done several other things too.  If someone has had
> >> > some experiance installing Linux on old thinkpads, please contact me.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks in advance
> >> > Mark Tolman
> >> >
> >> >
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