On Mittwoch, 28. Februar 2007, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > > Does the bios shows the correct size? > > > > I guess this laptop has really seen it's best times a while ago. Now I > > can't access the BIOS anymore, it asks me for a password to access it, > > but I never installed one and had no problems before. So I don't know... > > Ajá! ^^This sounds sympathically spanish, idioma de mis sueños, jajaja :-)
> Then my guess is definitely the bios is hosed. You have to reset it, > somehow, then autodetect the drive, and see if things changes. I think > the bios is informing the kernel of the wrong disk geometry and size. If > you haven't written anything to the disk, repairing the bios settings > should solve it all, with luck. Oh well, I guess now I distroyed the rest of life that was in that box :-( I couldn't find anything to reset the bios, so I opened all screws on that laptop I could find, and finally saw the cmos battery (or what I think was the cmos battery). I took it out to make the BIOS forget everything, inserted it back - and then the BIOS *really* forgot everything: now it even doesn't see any disk anmore at all... I tried that atapwd thing (it's quite hard to find a bootable dos diskette when everybody uses linux), but that brings only a blinking line for the primary master... Also all other programs now don't see the disk anymore... So now I really give it up. It was a very old laptop and I guess, it had more than one problem - may it rest in peace :-) Thank you all for your help. I'll keep your mails in my "look first folder", although I hope I will never need those infos anymore... kind regards Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com Madagascar special: http://www.sanic.ch -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
