[3817] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Quick Compaq Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Klaren)
Mon Nov 11 01:34:15 1996
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 22:32:18 -0800
To: "Daniel W. Forsyth" <forsyth@wchat.on.ca>
From: Jon Klaren <jklaren@qualcomm.com>
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
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On Sat, 09 Nov 1996 ,"Daniel W. Forsyth" <forsyth@wchat.on.ca> wrote:
>A client of mine will be going to LiNUX in the near future. The server
>is a Compaq Prosigna VS, I am assuming I will have to dump the main
>board w/ with Netflex Ethernet card on it... The SCSI controller is an
>NCR710... I belive that sucker will go too.
Don't know about the SCSI controller, but the NetFlex enet is unsupported
and no-one's working on it. The SCSI devices should work fine with another
SCSI controller.
The biggest problem I've run into with Compaq, and I've run into this with
the DeskPro XL and ProLinea models, is that they put their PCI BIOS in a
location where Linux can't access it without first running a DOS program to
relocate the PCI BIOS. That means you can't ever boot linux without first
booting DOS. It's been a real pain for me because every time Red Hat comes
out with an excellent new release, I have to hack their bootdisk to use on
these stupid computers. I'd suggest checking this out by trying to boot a
Red Hat installation boot disk. If you get kernel messages saying "No PCI
BIOS found" run away and buy anything else that works.
-Jon
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Jon Klaren
San Diego, CA USA
jklaren@qualcomm.com
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