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>Has anyone gotten Linux to run on the 755CX yet? I've tried all the >tips from the Linux/Thinkpad Web site at peipa.essex.ac.uk (specifying >the hard drive geometry, floppy=thinkpad, etc.) There was also nothing >in the archives of this mailing list. > >The boot disk comes up just fine. I'm prompted to insert the root >disk - once I do I get the following error: > [...] I just tried booting Linux on an 8/540 SVGA 755CX and it worked OK, i.e. got as far as mounting the root disk and getting the slackware login prompt. I used the following: 1. bare boot disk and uncompressed color.gz, written to floppy using rawrite, from wcarchive's Slackware 3.0 distribution; 2. no boot parameters entered, just hit return at the Boot: prompt. If it matters, there was a small DOS partition on the hard disk and the device probe on boot reported a mapped geometry (523/32/63). A recent FreeBSD 2.1.0 SNAP installed and ran OK on this notebook with no special preparations or actions required. -- Mark Ng mng@crl.com