[Gllug] Compaq Compatability
Chris Bell
chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Sat Oct 5 10:19:35 UTC 2002
On Sat 05 Oct, will wrote:
>
> Chris Bell wrote:
> > On Fri 04 Oct, Pavel Bradut Boghita wrote:
> >
> >
> >>> I have started playing with an old Compaq which uses the first few
> >>> sectors of the HDD as a sort of BIOS.
> >>
> >
> > It is a Deskpro XE 450 (486DX2), the original HDD was tiny, so I loaded
> > Debian onto a larger disc, but looked up the information on the Compaq web
> > site when it failed to re-boot from the HDD.
>
> I have a Compaq Deskpro 575 (P90 I think) and it came with a 600Mb HD so I put
> in a 3Gig and completely failed to get linux to boot off it :-) I did a network
> install of freeBSD and it worked fine, it was my main development server for months.
>
> Will.
>
>
I read the information on the Compaq web site and decided that writing to
the MBR probably removes any Compaq information. I have downloaded the
Compaq setup files, but not done it yet.
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Chris Bell
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