For many laptops, especially the toshibas, try the tecra patched disks in the special directory.
Brandon On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Timothy Bostrom wrote: > I just bought a Toshiba 440CDX and tried to install Debian 1.3.1. Every > time I put the boot disk in the floppy, the laptop would reboot right after > it gets done decompressing the kernel and says "loading Linux"... Finally, > after countless times, I was able to get it to boot and install the > distribution. Only now I can't get it to boot again... I'm using LILO to > do a dual-boot to Win95 (its for work only, guys!) and whenever I choose > Linux to boot it reboots... 95 works fine... I'm at a loss... I know of > people who have other distributions of Linux running on the same exact > laptop so I don't think it's the latop... I've tried popping out all of > the PCMCIA cards and booting but it still reboots... ----- Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds" Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .