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Paul Rubin <phr@netcom.com> wrote: |> there had been some discussion on the list of what to do. I believe |> the TP-Linux web page still says to do the DOS hack but it's hard |> to believe there's not a better method available. It is indeed hard to believe. I'd guess it just a magic bit that needs to be fiddled somewhere, but I've yet to find it. I now boot from a floppy which I keep in the drive all the time. I really didn't want to do this -- seemed somehow stupid to boot a DOS floppy to boot Linux, but I've gotten quite used to it. Take a clean DOS disk, do SYS to it to put the hidden files and COMMAND.COM. Copy over PS2.MSG and PS2.COM from the Thinkpad Utilities disk (C:\THINKPAD on normal DOS systems), and your kernel and LOADLIN.EXE of course. My CONFIG.SYS is empty, and in my AUTOEXEC.BAT I have: set PS2MSG=\ps2.msg ps2 mode3x on loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ro vga=7 the PS2MSG line is required for ps2 to work. Of course, you'll need to set the loadlin specs yourself. The "vga=7", for example, is my own patched mode to get the console to use 37 lines. Jeffrey ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey Friedl <jfriedl@omron.co.jp> Omron Corp, Nagaokakyo, Kyoto 617 Japan See my Jap<->Eng dictionary at http://www.wg.omron.co.jp/cgi-bin/j-e or at mirrors at [enterprise.ic.gc.ca] and [www.itc.omron.com]