--- Adam Vazquez Kb2Jpd
Rafe wrote:
--- Ken Schneider
wrote: On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 10:29 -0700, Rafe wrote:
I did not know about the floppy= parameters -
thanks
for pointing it out. I still get the error:
"Boot failed: please change disks and press a key
to
continue."
Pressing a key does nothing. I goggled the
floppy=
parameter and tried ALL the possible settings
-same
error every time. I even tried floppy=debug and
got
nothing new. I tried all the above with and
without
quotes "".
I am going to buy a second new box of floppies.
The
Office Depot near me only sells their brand and I
may
need better floppies. Has anyone else had to
switch
floppy brands to get this to work? The floppies
pass
verify on my linux box, but that does not mean
they
are prefect. I seem to remember that the device drivers for floppies sometimes will try to read several times before giving up and maybe on the
setup
disk every thing has to work the first time.
Rafe
Please don't top post. How are you creating the floppies? If using linux dd would be the command and if using windows rawwrite would be used.
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
Sorry about the top posting.
I am using linux to create the floppies:
dd if=bootdisk1 of=/dev/fd0
I am trying memorex floppies right now, but still no luck.
Rafe
It is time for you to hit the Web "linux laptops" on Google:
There are several sites that focus on Sony Laptops.
Search for the answer on Google and I bet you will be able to get it to work.
Adam
Ouch!!! I've been all over google and I either don't know the right question(s) or my problem is not listed. I've visited a lot of the sites from your link. I can keep looking, but I am starting to think that I am doing something very basic wrong. Most sites say that linux should install on a thinkpad with no problems. I am using a usb teac floppy drive and a Lite-on it corp cdrom/dvd drive. Windows xp has no trouble finding either floppy or cdrom drive. I have installed linux many times, but I must admit I am used to everything working well at this stage of the install. The problems come in at the config stage. Windows xp installed on the laptop with no problems - so I think the hardware is ok. I just ftped the bootdisks to the laptop and used rawwrite for windows from the laptop to create the boot floppies -same error message: Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue. Pressing a key does nothing. I've read on google that some people with this error had luck with a different floppy disk. So this error is sometimes given for bad floppies, but that does not seem to be my problem. Again I think I am doing something very simple wrong, but I am just not able to see it. Rafe