[101048] in RedHat Linux List
RE: compaq and linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Parmer \(jasonp\))
Tue Nov 24 11:49:09 1998
From: "Jason Parmer \(jasonp\)" <jasonp@sequent.com>
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Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 08:35:58 -0800
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they can work without it, but they have a nasty habit of disabling their
floppy drives... and then, if you've deleted the partition, you are stuck
with a NASTY catch-22, especially since the install partition floppies will
not install unless you are installing on a actual compaq 4000.... it's
baaaaaad. What the partition stores, AFAIK, is just the CMOS setup program
and possibly some configuration data.
Jason Parmer
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Anderson [SMTP:bunicula@mediaone.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 1998 6:41 AM
> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
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> Subject: Re: compaq and linux
>
> On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, LEBLIN Jean-Yves wrote:
>
> > I've had a look at my partitions and discovered a "non-dos" partition
> where
> > compaq probably puts its configuring system to load the (95) then. I
> think
> > 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.
>
>
> I could be wrong, but as far as I know, compaq stores some part / most of
> the system bios on the hard drive, in that "non-dos partition". i don't
> know if the machines that use that disk-bios thing can work without it.
>
>
> but, my compaq knowledge is very limitted, so feel free to correct me :)
>
>
>
> brian
>
>
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