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> I'm installing Linux on my 355Cs. It has the 1.44 fd, and while > installing slackware 2.2.0(after setting hd params) it asks me to insert > the ramdisk floppy. whether or not I do, it tells me that it detected a > media change in device 2/28. then it promts me for the rootdisk, tells me > about device 2/28 again and then gives me a kernel panic error :VMS:unable > to mount fs on 02e1. Any ideas? please help if you can. thanks for your > time. > > see ya. --Conrad > > Conrad Albrecht-Buehler Northwestern University conrada-b@nwu.edu The Thinkpad you have may have a floppy drive with reversed disk change sense. You can try using "floppy=thinkpad" on the lilo boot prompt to get around this problem. The "floppy=thinkpad" is only supported in later kernels (above 1.1.70 ish?) so it may not work. Newer Thinkpads don't seem to have this problem anymore. If the Slackware you are booting doesn't work then either upgrade to a newer slackware or there are some disks you can get with a kernel compiled with the disk change sense reversed. Hope this helps. Let me know how it goes! +----------------------------Ren & Stimpy--------------------------------+ | "Psst. Hey Guido. It's all so clear to me now. I'm the keeper of the | | cheese. And you're the lemon merchant. Get it? And he knows it. That's | | why he's gonna kill us. So we gotta beat it. Yeah. Before he lets | | loose the marmosets on us! Don't worry, little missy! I'll save you!" | +------------------ Brad Pepers -- pepersb@cuug.ab.ca -------------------+