On Wednesday 25 September 2002 10:21 pm, you wrote: > George Baker wrote: > >I've got a Compaq DP 4000 P166 which creates a partition with the software > >to change any CMOS settings (you push F10). After installing MDK 7.0 with > >LILO I can't get into the Cmos settings. Is there a way of pointing LILO > > to this partition. Luckily I still have the stiffy disks to change any > > settings. > > > >Thanks > >George Baker > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >South Africa
> George, > I don't think that you want to point LILO to the 'Maintenance > Partition' that Compaq puts on the HD do you? There really isn't > anything there for you except bios settings which you do before going > into LILO. It is a propriety partition and only used for setting the > bios requirements. Usually you can get into this as you said by F10 or > by the disks. I think you might need to download a repair file from compaq, that loads on a floppy, and I think you still _have_ to have 2 fat partitions before the linux partition. I ain't sure (of anything these days) but in my book I qualify this box and the rest of the compaq 4000 series as win-hardware. how much could compaq have saved per box by not having a "complete" bios is beyond me, but I guess it might have helped sell the second computer that whomever bought this one first surely had to buy. I just gave one away that I had upgraded the CPU to a cyrix 200 and 80megs of ram (from a 133, 16 megs ram) but that was all the ram it would recognize, but since it was such an asspain to add a harddrive to, I said "screw it", and since it was "tossed out" is how I got it, the ram and the cpu, it did not cost me anything but time, and I got experiance and a new friend that really can use an e-mail and e-bay posting machine.
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