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The system crashes at some arbitray stage of the boot process.
The reason is proprietary hardware. No information is released about it by the manufacturer. Thus it is very difficult or even impossible for the kernel programmers to provide a correctly working software. See also maddin_dos.html.
There is no general solution. A working procedure (at least with older models)
seems to be, to start the installation from DOS with setup.exe
and to load Linux with loadlin
.
We've collected these tips from the feedback of our customers over the time. We're always interested in feedback: mailto:feedback@suse.de.
thinkpad
bootdisk, that is contained in the distribution
from version 5.3 on as an image file (see the directory /disks
on the first CD).
For S.u.S.E. Linux 5.2 this discette is available at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse_update/suse52/disks/
(file "thinkpad
") as an update. The SDB article mb_3.html,
explains, how you can create a boot disc.
config.sys
with the parameter
/S
(this probably means "sleep"); E.g. :
DEVICE = drive:\path\IBMTPCD.SYS /S(Please replace
drive
and path
by the correct values for your system !).
See also:
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