From: Pradeep Chetal (chetal_at_gedny.ml.com)
Date: Mon Oct 17 1994 - 10:00:25 EDT
<Keith Moore> writes:
> > >
> > > Does anyone know which disk controller chips the 750 and 755 use?
> > >
> >
> > When I boot from my Linux install bootdisk, it reports :
> >
> > "FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077"
> >
> > Means nothing to me, though. It's just a shame that I can't get the boot
> > kernel to load the root disk -- I get a floppy I/O error.
>
> That's either because the thinkpad has a different floppy drive type than
> Linux is used to, or because the thinkpad floppy's disk change line has the
> opposite assertion level than nearly every other PC on the planet.
>
> Both of these problems have been solved, but the bottom line is that the
> thinkpad requires a different version of Linux.
>
> Do you know about the Linux-on-a-ThinkPad web page? It's at:
>
> http://peipa.essex.ac.uk/html/linux-thinkpad.html
For people behind firewalls (like us) who have access only for ftp & telnet,
can I ftp these (or FAQ or any blurb!).
Thanks,
/Pradeep
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