Re: hang during boot on 2.0.103 (not tomsrtbt's faultbut anyway ...)

Thanks for the recent replies.

Tom said:

>
> Try booting it with:
>
> boot: bz2bzImage floppy=thinkpad
>
> see if that helps.

No it didn't - hung at same point.

Robert said:

>
> Your best bet would be to download the kernel.config from Toms website
> get the kernel source and toms patches. You then compile your own kernel
> by minimising the drivers that are compiled directly into the kernel:
>
>   NO ethernet drivers -- make the one the thinkpad uses a module.
>   NO SCSI, turn the entire SCSI subsystem into modules.
>   Remove anything else that isn't needed right now.
>     -- I think this includes the floppy for 2.0.103, 'cause the
>        ramdisk is loaded by lilo.
>

Can you please give me an url for  "the kernel.config from Toms website" and "toms patches".
Also which version of the kernel is in 2.0.103? - I can't tell.   
(At least, it tells me a number I can't relate to regular versions I recognize).
I assume it is best to use the exact same kernel version as is on there now.
I did take a peek around on
 http://not.toms.net/tomsrtbt-sources/
and found all kinds of interesting stuff but I don't know what specifically relates
to what I have on my 2.0.103.

Also where you said "I think this includes the floppy for 2.0.103,'cause the ramdisk is loaded by lilo"
dumb question - wouldn't I need floppy support to be able to mount /dev/fd0u1722?

Lastly - umm - probably also pretty dumb - how will doing all of this fix my hang?
Are you saying that by turning off any references to SCSI_PPA in the kernel config, that will
suppress the auto-detect probe for the ppa's?    I guess that makes sense but from looking at boot messages
it seems to me that this auto-probing happens before modules got loaded - i.e. was controlled by something else?

John