-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-02-28 at 19:54 +0100, Daniel Bauer wrote:
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 :-)
X-) I guess I can now and then use a little idiomatic colour O:-)
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 :-(
Oh, my! :-(
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...
Doesn't it have a reset to defaults or sensible values option? Or a "detect" HD? Or set manually disk settings?
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...
Maybe there is no disk - the cable could be damaged, so the bios does not see it.
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 :-)
Who knows... I'm clutching at straws to find hope.
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...
Experience comes from failures more than successes :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF5hPZtTMYHG2NR9URAlyZAJ9VTK/BKcbhuE+uJAnRjREIFG9B0wCfTbDv oYTCi3569L8nG0TPj0gH/OU= =OrOf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----