Re: Thinkpad 560 - some info, a couple questions

1999-10-20 Thread Marius Aamodt Eriksen
Hi again, Have you tried the linux tpctl ? in that case, what does "tpctl --info-all" report? Just curious, to compare it with mine. Marius. On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 02:18:36PM -0700, John Miskinis wrote: > Hi Marius, > > Thanks for the info. It appears you have a VERY old BIOS, as I > downdr

Re: ThinkPad 560

1997-12-09 Thread Nils Rennebarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 8 Dec 1997, Kirk Hilliard wrote: > Paul Rightley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I know of no Thinkpads that can boot bzImages (though I do not know > > many Thinkpads) - which is why the 'tecra' disks work (i.e. they are > > zImages). > > Is this true? I th

Re: ThinkPad 560

1997-12-09 Thread Paul Rightley
I have been led to believe that the 'tecra' disks had the kernel patch AND were compiled as zImages. I may very well be wrong on this account. However, I have yet to see a bzImage (that I have compiled) boot my Thinkpad. Paul On 08-Dec-97 Kirk Hilliard wrote: >Hi Paul! > >Paul Rightley <[EMAIL

Re: ThinkPad 560

1997-12-09 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Hi Paul! Paul Rightley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know of no Thinkpads that can boot bzImages (though I do not know > many Thinkpads) - which is why the 'tecra' disks work (i.e. they are > zImages). Is this true? I thought that the Tecra disks were still bzImages, but were compiled with the

RE: ThinkPad 560

1997-12-08 Thread Paul Rightley
On 08-Dec-97 Matt Thompson wrote: > >Paul, > >Thanks for your reply. I found that, for some reason, my TPad didn't want >to boot any 'bzImage', but that any 'zImage' was fine. ??? > >All is well, now. I have a tendency to do things manually with regards to >the kernel. :) > >Cheers, >Matt > Ma

RE: ThinkPad 560

1997-12-08 Thread Matt Thompson
> On 30-Nov-97 Matt Thompson wrote: >> I seem to be having trouble configuring a custom kernel. The only >> kernels that work are on the 'tecra' rescue disk, and the one I got >> from Valery Petrov's site, but those don't support fat32 and when I >> make a boot floppy from the rescue disk, it load

RE: ThinkPad 560

1997-12-04 Thread Paul Rightley
On 30-Nov-97 Matt Thompson wrote: >I seem to be having trouble configuring a custom kernel. The only >kernels that work are on the 'tecra' rescue disk, and the one I got from >Valery Petrov's site, but those don't support fat32 and when I make a boot >floppy from the rescue disk, it loads the ker