[101035] in RedHat Linux List
RE: compaq and linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Viray)
Tue Nov 24 10:48:24 1998
From: David Viray <Viray@casd.mot.com>
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Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 09:34:19 -0600
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Lloyd Parsons Wrote:
>That is the most important partition on your hard disk. It is the complete
>CMOS settings for your computer. It is only accessed if you hit the F10
key
>during the POST.
This partition is not the CMOS. The partition called the System Partition.
On desktop Compaqs this is preconfigured from the factory. On Compaq
servers, this is created by the SmartStart installation utility.
This software here allows you to change values in CMOS as well as add and
remove hardware. If this partition poses a problem, then it can be removed,
and the system will be usable until a hardware or CMOS change is necessary.
If you have a server, you can run the System Configuration Utility from the
SmartStart CD. If you have a desktop, you can download the utility from the
website ( www.compaq,com ), and boot from a system configuration floppy.
>>On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, LEBLIN Jean-Yves wrote:
>> compaq probably puts its configuring system to load the (95) then. Ithink
>> there is some sort of loader in the mbr that uses this partition. Now my
>> problem is how shall i overpass this to start installing RH and then what
>> will happen when i will try to setuo LILO.
The MBR is located at the start of the ACTIVE partition. This is the
partition that you boot from. The MBR on Compaqs is NOT on the System
Configuration Utility partition. Compaq computers have some sort of boot
manager in ROM that will boot from the NON-DOS partition when F10 is
pressed.
Is it possible to place LILO on the active partition, instead of letting it
have the first sector of the hard drive? Someone else will have to answer
that, as I have not yet tried it, but I think it should be possible...
Regards
David Viray
FOA Engineer
Motorola ICSD
virayaticsddotmotdotcom
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