Juergen Braukmann wrote:
Frans Legdeur wrote:
So I didn't had to change my Bios settings in this case...but maybe they where allready OK.
For the Compaq Bios settings, you need the special setup utility, downloaded from their web site to enter the setup. Normaly there is an special partition at the end of the hardisk cylinders, that you can start by holding down the F-10 key during startup, when the blok cursor blinks in the uperright corner.
Allthoug when Linux is installed, and you didn't wipe out this partition, lilo will not allow the setup partition to start.
I had a little Campaq bashing session with my collegues at work for this reason, but there *is* a solution. As soon as you install lilo, Compaq won't be able to access the diags. partition. you have to make an entry in lilo.conf for it. If this problem *persists* I'll ask and give further info. I'd treat the diags. part. just like M$-DOS.
My recent experience with a compaq deskpro 590 is in order to access your isa slots you need the diagnostic partition. The system will run linux without it but you just cant get to the isa slots (not good) my compaq put the diag partition on the *1st 4mg of disk space AND a little something on the mbr! It insisted on that... wich forced me to run loadlin vmlinuz by hand (from a small 20M dos partition I created) come to find after serching deja news about compaq trashing disks... I read a post telling to add the Linear option to lilo... make the linux partition bootable and place lilo on the bootable drive wallah! worked like a charm. Just thought I'd pass that along that compaq isstarting to shape up ;-) have fun! rob -- Bookmarks <A HREF="http://www.connix.com/~dizzy73/LBM.htm"><A HREF="http://www.connix.com/~dizzy73/LBM.htm</A">http://www.connix.com/~dizzy73/LBM.htm</A</A>> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>