by I've been having a few interesting problems installing on a Compaq contura 430
laptop.
1) No boot floppy/rescue disk will work (even with floppy=thinkpad)
It says loading linux, and then about 3 seconds later, boot failed. I've
tried debian tecra and safe disks as well. Same result.
I 'can' boot from the install.boot stuff under DOS. that works fine.
I can install everything from the CD. that works okay too.
I cannot however, make a boot/rescue disk after the install is done. That
does not work. It just tells me it failed without any hint as to why.
I cannot install the loader either. I imagine the complicating factor
here is the compaq diagnostics stuff is on partition 3, win95 is on partition
1, redhat is on partition 5 and swap on 6. I've tried to install the boot
loader on 5 and 1 (the only options I get). It tells me failed in either
case.
I can see that everything is installed if I boot using install.boot and
get a shell later in the process. I've tried loadlin to, but to no avail
thus far. (probably lack of improper argument sequence.
I could live without the boot block if I had a reliable way to boot up
using the install/rescue disk. Anybody have any hints on this one?
(Checked a whole bunch of laptop and other FAQs already)
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