Colin wrote:
A more obscure BIOS tactic common back in the day was to put all or
part of it in a hidden area on the primary master hard drive. This
might be your issue, except I think this was only Compaq 486/Pentium
systems. Name-brand computers always have some proprietary feature
to
On 6/24/05, Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Colin wrote:
A more obscure BIOS tactic common back in the day was to put all or
part of it in a hidden area on the primary master hard drive. This
might be your issue, except I think this was only Compaq 486/Pentium
systems.
On 6/23/05, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael Haan wrote:
On 6/23/05, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 6/23/05, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael Haan wrote:
On 6/23/05, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael Haan wrote:
I don't know what is
Michael Haan schreef:
I was able to boot the factory HD (and, I think, possibly the CD too)
with SuSE. But I took that drive when I built another Gentoo box, so
I replaced it with another drive I had laying around.
And what comes to my mind on hearing this is jumpers?
The short
Holly Bostick wrote:
Michael Haan schreef:
I was able to boot the factory HD (and, I think, possibly the CD too)
with SuSE. But I took that drive when I built another Gentoo box, so
I replaced it with another drive I had laying around.
And what comes to my mind on hearing this is
Michael Haan wrote:
On 6/24/05, Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Colin wrote:
A more obscure BIOS tactic common back in the day was to put all or
part of it in a hidden area on the primary master hard drive. This
might be your issue, except I think this was only Compaq 486/Pentium
I don't know what is going on here. I've installed x86 2005.0 on a
Dell Optiplex. I've installed a new harddrive (b/c I took the factory
one for another gentoo box), run through the x86 install, built a
kernel and installed grub. The box refuses to boot from the hard
drive. In fact, in the
Michael Haan wrote:
I don't know what is going on here. I've installed x86 2005.0 on a
Dell Optiplex. I've installed a new harddrive (b/c I took the factory
one for another gentoo box), run through the x86 install, built a
kernel and installed grub. The box refuses to boot from the hard
On 6/23/05, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael Haan wrote:
I don't know what is going on here. I've installed x86 2005.0 on a
Dell Optiplex. I've installed a new harddrive (b/c I took the factory
one for another gentoo box), run through the x86 install, built a
kernel and
Michael Haan wrote:
On 6/23/05, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael Haan wrote:
I don't know what is going on here. I've installed x86 2005.0 on a
Dell Optiplex. I've installed a new harddrive (b/c I took the factory
one for another gentoo box), run through the x86 install, built a
It looks like Dell messed up with the BIOS, they allways do
modifications for their own purpose, I had problems like that in a
Compaq too... As someone said before, try running Gentoo from a boot
floppy (if your BIOS refuses to boot from floppy, get a hammer and
throw your computer of a bridge),
On 6/23/05, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It looks like Dell messed up with the BIOS, they allways do
modifications for their own purpose, I had problems like that in a
Compaq too... As someone said before, try running Gentoo from a boot
floppy (if your BIOS refuses to boot from
Michael Haan wrote:
On 6/23/05, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 6/23/05, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael Haan wrote:
On 6/23/05, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael Haan wrote:
I don't know what is going on here. I've installed x86 2005.0 on a
Dell Optiplex.
Michael Haan wrote:
I don't know what is going on here. I've installed x86 2005.0 on a
Dell Optiplex. I've installed a new harddrive (b/c I took the factory
one for another gentoo box), run through the x86 install, built a
kernel and installed grub. The box refuses to boot from the hard
drive.
Richard Fish wrote:
Michael Haan wrote:
I don't know what is going on here. I've installed x86 2005.0 on a
Dell Optiplex. I've installed a new harddrive (b/c I took the factory
one for another gentoo box), run through the x86 install, built a
kernel and installed grub. The box refuses to
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