Toshiba Libretto

Forum: Laptops
Topic: Toshiba Libretto
started by: wrayal

Posted by wrayal on Oct. 16 2004,18:26

I swapped my libretto 70ct HD into another laptop and isntalled DSL on it, swapped it back, booted...and got a kernel oops. One of my friends says this has something to do with ISA support, but I'm pretty sure I saw a thread somewhere where someone said they had achieved it. Its odd, it appears to mount my ext2 partition fine, but it reports I have hda1, hda2 and hda5 as swap, but I dont have that hda2 partition....
Any ideas? /me doesnt like libricks ;)

Wrayal

Posted by wrayal on Oct. 21 2004,13:48

Come on guys please! I really need some help with this one. Iv spent quite a bit of time fiddling and investigating, but to no avail, and my lib-brick, pretty as it is, is not hugely practical ;)

Wrayal

Posted by skaos on Oct. 21 2004,14:46

I don't really know the answer, but many people on this forum have reported problems with power management - search for noapm and noacpi. If you would try another install, I suggest that you run dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda before hd-install (assuming that hda is your disk) - this will completely zero out the disk, including the partition table.

You may also find some info on: < http://www.linux-on-laptops.com >

Posted by AwPhuch on Oct. 21 2004,16:28

have you dont a sudo cfdisk to view your partitions..you might have those and not be able to see them

Also its good to "Zero" out a harddrive before installing an OS..unless you dont want to loose everything...if you dont mind erasing everything from a drive I recommend:
< http://awphuch2000.dyndns.org:1079/dban/auto.build/quick/ >
make sure you read the README file before using this.

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by wrayal on Oct. 22 2004,09:52

Thanks very much guys. I'll give them a try tonight!

Wrayal