[NTLUG:Discuss] Slackware 10.1 on a Thinkpad t23

[Stephen Klein]

Tom Tumelty wrote:
> He did boot to the cd. At least that is what i understood. I will ask again.
> 
> I havent been trying to help him via email so i havent seen the problem but 
> could it be the bios doesnt recognize the format of the cd ? Is it possible 
> the machine is old enough it doesnt recognize the cd format and that is why 
> it thinks the disk is a music cd ?
> .
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> On 9/3/05, Terry <trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On 9/3/05, Tom Tumelty <tomtumelty at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>A friend is trying to install Slackware 10.1 on a Thinkpad T23. He says 
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>>the
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>>>computer thinks the cd is a music cd.
>>>Any idea what might be wrong ?
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>>>
>>>Thanks in advance.
>>>
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>>Tell him to boot to the CD.
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If you have a floppy drive available, Slackware comes with a utility 
called the, Smart Boot Manager, that is excellent for this type of 
problem where the BIOS simply won't boot off of a CD.

In the rootdisks directory on the install cd there is a disk image named 
sbootmgr.dsk.  Use Rawrite or dd to copy this to a floppy and boot from 
it.  You should get a menu allowing you to select from various boot 
devices, hopefully it will have an entry for the CDROM.

I use this to get an old HP machine to boot from a modern harddrive. 
For some reason LILO will hang if it is loaded by the BIOS, but will 
work fine if Smart Boot Manger loads first and then loads LILO.

Hope this helps,
Stephen Klein