[ale] Mandrake install on a IBM TP 240x

[Ken Nagorski]

Have you looked at the laptop howto. I am not real sure but I believe that
the IBM's use a funky floppy device and taht is what is causing the
problem. 

Hmm, just a thought.

Ken


 On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, John Kerns, Jr. wrote:

> I have done an FTP install of Mandrake 8.0 twice and both times I had the
> following problems:
> 
> When it got to the bootloader install it failed until I removed the floppy
> partition. Then I got it to install the bootloader and finish the install.
> 
> After rebooting in the normal load it displays a blue welcome screen and hangs.
> In the linux-nonfb and the failsafe load it hangs at the message "Warning:
> unable to open an initial console".
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Later,
> John
> 
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