Juergen Braukmann wrote:
dizzy wrote:
zentara wrote:
dizzy wrote:
Hi All I aqquired a compaq presairo and wanted to use a hd disk that I had already been using. The hd had lilo on the mbr and worked flawlessly. I removed and installed the hd into the compaq which come to find has a setup/diagnostic prog in the mbr?? anyway the hd booted with just LI so
not realy in the mbr, compaq uses a "diagnostics partition".
yes! it keeps telling me "If you are running unix you must run or go thru the setup utility" What happened was, I removed the existing hd and put in the 1200M suse somehow it got hosed :( when I put the disk back on the ps/1 I get errors to the effect described in the other messages ide0={busy}.... thne hd not ready for command
If you want to go into setup, you have to press F10 as soon as the little square appears in the top right corner of the screen. this causes the setup-part. to be accessed. it must be a bios routine, that does it. if you want to create a diagnostics partition, you need 2 (nowerdays 3) Disks. Of course, you can create these disks from an existing diagnostics partition or get them from compaq's ftp site.
Yes I origunally made the disks (floppies) but when I tried to create the partition it said their wasnt enough space left. So Im using the old hd 640M added a cdrom (which it dosent seem to like although I can get a drive letter) Then added another 840 as a secondary drive. This compac is a pressairo deskpro 590 apparently a pentium 90 with 24 ram Im desperatly trying to get suse on it but it diddnt like the 5.5G drive thne somehow screwed up my 1200M.... CAn you tell me if you think this would work? First I need I suppose the cdrom if not I can ftp install and not use the cdrom suggestions I have 1200M with a nice install of suse that seems hosed 840M empty a 640M that came with it and another 530 or so. I suppose I could try and remove the cdrom and use lan networking My impression, the compaq diddnt like Linux . so far its never booted a hd with linux on it Sorry to be confusing here .... but Im confused ;-) Thanks Alot rob - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e