I have several Compaqs and the easiest way around this that I found was to
go to the Compaq site and download the F10 utilities to floppys and forget
about the little hard drive partition. Sorry I couldn't be of more help than
this.
Lyndon Lininger Sr.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anton Graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 11:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] about lilo and fat's
> Submitted 01-May-00 by Pixel:
> | Anton Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> |
> | > It's not limited to only Win partitions. I have a Type 12 partition
that the
> | > installer wouldn't let me put as a lilo boot option. It might have if
I hadn't
> | > also wanted the Win partition. Is this installer limit on foreign
partition
> | > types as a whole?
> |
> | ?? i don't quite understand what you mean. could you tell more.
>
> This particular machine is a Compaq Deskpro. In order to configure BIOS
> options, I have to be able to boot into a type 12 (Compaq Diagnostics)
> partition which resides physically first on the drive, but logically at
> /dev/hda3. When I tried to add this partition to the lilo configuration
> during install, it kept generating errors (sorry I can't be too specific,
it's
> been several days) about not being able to find the partition.
>
> These Deskpros are screwy machines, because I have to have the Diagnostics
> partition as a lilo option if I put lilo in the MBR. Otherwise lilo
intercepts
> the F10 keystroke that normally triggers the partition to boot (the BIOS
> catches it after the read of the MBR) and boots to whatever is default
without
> waitiong for options.
>
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