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The Wednesday 2007-02-28 at 19:54 +0100, Daniel Bauer wrote:
> 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 :-)
X-)
I guess I can now and then use a little idiomatic colour O:-)
> > 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 :-(
Oh, my! :-(
> 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...
Doesn't it have a reset to defaults or sensible values option? Or a
"detect" HD? Or set manually disk settings?
> 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...
Maybe there is no disk - the cable could be damaged, so the bios does not
see it.
> 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 :-)
Who knows... I'm clutching at straws to find hope.
> 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...
Experience comes from failures more than successes :-)
- --
Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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