Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3109 mails)

[Daniel Bauer <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mittwoch, 28. Februar 2007, Carlos E. R. wrote:

> > > Does the bios shows the correct size?
> >
> > I guess this laptop has really seen it's best times a while ago. Now I
> > can't access the BIOS anymore, it asks me for a password to access it,
> > but I never installed one and had no problems before. So I don't know...
>
> Ajá! 
^^This sounds sympathically spanish, idioma de mis sueños, jajaja :-)

> Then my guess is definitely the bios is hosed. You have to reset it, 
> somehow, then autodetect the drive, and see if things changes. I think
> the bios is informing the kernel of the wrong disk geometry and size. If
> you haven't written anything to the disk, repairing the bios settings
> should solve it all, with luck.

Oh well, I guess now I distroyed the rest of life that was in that box :-(

I couldn't find anything to reset the bios, so I opened all screws on that 
laptop I could find, and finally saw the cmos battery (or what I think was 
the cmos battery). I took it out to make the BIOS forget everything, inserted 
it back - and then the BIOS *really* forgot everything: now it even doesn't 
see any disk anmore at all...

I tried that atapwd thing (it's quite hard to find a bootable dos diskette 
when everybody uses linux), but that brings only a blinking line for the 
primary master...

Also all other programs now don't see the disk anymore...

So now I really give it up. It was a very old laptop and I guess, it had more 
than one problem - may it rest in peace :-)

Thank you all for your help. I'll keep your mails in my "look first folder", 
although I hope I will never need those infos anymore...

kind regards

Daniel

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