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My IBM Thinkpad won load the rootdisk into a ramdisk correctly, so I can install Linux. What can I do?

April 26, 2017correctly IBM install linux load ramdisk rootdisk ThinkPad

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My IBM Thinkpad won load the rootdisk into a ramdisk correctly, so I can install Linux. What can I do?

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The disk-changed sensor on some older Thinkpads works a little differently. This can be worked around — just specify “floppy=thinkpad” when booting: boot: ramdisk floppy=thinkpad … on the bootdisk’s LILO prompt.