[ale] Slack 7.1 on IBM TP701cs

[Douglas Bridges]

When booting up the first disk, and you have an option to pass command line 
parameters to the kernel, try floppy=thinkpad. I suspect that will fix your 
problem.

Doug Bridges


>From: "David S. Jackson" Reply-To: "David S. Jackson" To: ale at ale.org 
>Subject: [ale] Slack 7.1 on IBM TP701cs Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 17:13:06 
>-0400
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I was just trying to make boot floppies for my ancient IBM TP701cs laptop 
>so I could install Slack 7.1 on it. I've made the bootdisk with the network 
>extras on it, I've made the color.gz install disk, but when I put in the 
>2nd disk, it doesn't work.
>
>I remade the root disk on onto another fresh disk, just in case the disk 
>was bad, but the problem seems to be the same:
>
>[MSj-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 16,check=n,conv=b,uid0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap] 
>[me=0x49,cs=7200,#f=218,fs=1246,fl=2617320,ds=571636800,de=57280,date=571640400,se=61098,ts=633471204,ls=31133,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
>
>. . . msg repeats 2 more times . . .
>
>Invalid session number or type of track end_request: I/O error, dev 02:1c 
>(floppy), sector 64 isofs_read_supper: bread failed, dev=02:1c, 
>iso_blknum=16, block=32 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:1c
>
>
>It sounds to me like I did something wrong with creating the root disk. Or 
>that the color.gz rootdisk doesn't work with my TP701CS.
>
>Any tips? Note: I've tried creating color.gz both with rawrite on a winbox 
>as well as with dd if=color.gz of=/dev/fd0.
>
>
>
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