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Subject: Re: can't boot kern.flp on thinkpad 750
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Andy Greenwood wrote:
> I'm trying to install 4.11 on an old IBM Thinkpad 750, but can't get
> the kern.flp disk to boot. I know that the floppy drive on this
> machine isn't exactly standard (it's a 2.88M drive, if that makes a
> difference), but I'm not sure what the differences are. In any case,
> when it tries to load the kernel from the floppy, I get this output..
> 
> Disk error 0x4 (lba=0x38)

Likely a faulty disk or drive.