[Gllug] Compaq Compatability

[Chris Bell]

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. 

-- 
Chris Bell


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