Laptops :: Toshiba Tecra 730cdt



Toshiba Tecra 730CDT laptop:
100mhz (maybe 199mhz at most) Pentium processor
4g harddrive,  48mb ram
Bios does not support booting from cd-rom;  boot from harddrive and floppy only (but I don't have a floppy drive).  So...

I bought an adapter to hook up the laptop harddrive to my desktop (pentium III).  I booted up DSL1.0.1 from cd and shred the harddrive (bye bye window$) using:

#sudo shred -v -n1 /dev/hda

Then I cfdisk and created 3 partitions:
hda1  bootable  500mb    type: Linux (82 I believe)
hda2       about 3000mb   type: Linux   free space
hda3       about 1000mb   type: Linux swap

Next,  I was online and did a dsl-hdinstall choosing the enhanced option.  Everything installed fine except for lilo,  there was an error (which I didn't write down  :(  )
I decided to move on and redo the dsl-hdinstall,  this time with only the standard option.  Everything went fine,  I rebooted and made passwords.  I then took the laptop hd out of the desktop,  and put it back into the laptop and booted up.  Lilo comes up fine,  and the boot process begins.  Here comes the fun  :laugh:

kmod:  failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno=2

kmod:  failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k ide-scsi, errno=2

kmod:  failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k ide-cd, errno=2

VFS: cannot open root device "1601" or 16:01
please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 16:01
:D

I have tried the following boot options with no success:
dsl failsafe
dsl 2
dsl 2 failsafe
dsl noscsi

i'm over my head at this point... any ideas?
anyone?? any ideas??  Am I  (or my laptop)  hopless?
Try:

failsafe mem=48M

and make sure that "mem" is lowercase and the "M" at the end is uppercase

For a failsafe boot, don't type

dsl failsafe

Instead:

failsafe
cbagger01,     Thanx for the post!

However it's not working.  When I boot the laptop,  
lilo 22.5.7.2 comes up (it doesn't look anything like a normal dsl from cdrom boot).  When I try:                failsafe

lilo returns the message:     no such image.  [tab] shows a list.

Samething happens for:       failsafe mem=48M

I also tried both of you suggestions preceeded by:     dsl
resulting in the same message in my original post (kernel panic,  etc)

Do you think lilo is not configured correctly since it won't accept boot time options that aren't preceeded by dsl?
You should see the standard syslinux DSL boot screen (from cd)
if you are booting from CD disk.

Otherwise, you need to boot from cd in order to edit your lilo.conf file and add these commands to the append statement and then rerun lilo.

As far as I know, you can't enter cheatcodes (boot parameters) directly from the lilo prompt.
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