Which came first? Chicken or the egg?

[Leon Goldstein]

Jerry McBride wrote:

>I was given an old IBM Thinkpad 560E... it still works and has/had win98 on 
>it. The windows install was riddled with virus and other non-sense and I 
>would dearly love to put linux on this...
>
>The problem is, no build in usb, floppy or cdrom. Yes, I have a pcmcia cdrom 
>that can be used... but there's no way to start the linux install from it. 
>Windows was so borked that it would not recognize the pcmcia hardware.
>
>I tried taking the 2.5" HD out of the thinkpad and installing linux on it via 
>another computer. Linux installs fine and even boots without an erro. 
>However, when the HD is installed in the thinkpad, whether LILO or GRUB is 
>used, the bootup stops just as the boot loader begins the kernel load. 
>
>GRUB just loops (reboot, load grub, reboot) after grub shows it's menu and not 
>a single error or complaint. 
>
>LILO does pretty much the same thing, buts give an additional "bios error code 
>0x99" which leads to google results of "use linear instead of lba32"... 
>Change lba32 to linear, reload LILO to the MBR and still the same error. 
>
>On a newer laptop, the HD boots perfectly.
>
>Anyone have a suggestion how to get this old laptop running linux? I've about 
>had it... 
>
>  
>
I'd try a BIOS update first, if one is available.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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