Re: [TCLUG:9903] new install continuted..

[Alicia Larson <alicia@winternet.com>]

Yeah its a Compaq.........proliant 800.  Ill check out the site.
Thanks
Alicia

Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> >still freezes up, linux loader is messed up somehow.  Getting into the
> >bios via f10 never worked.  As for now, I have no problems booting from
> >the disk.....its being used as a server.
>         sounds exactly like our webserver here. :)
>         i'm guessing by the sound of it, that this is an older Compaq? those
> things have a funky BIOS configurator. on the factory install, there's a
> ~5MB partition that has the BIOS configurator utility on it. if you
> repartition your drive, however, it whacks that configurator. (ranks up
> there as one of the worse engineering ideas I've seen... looks like
> something marketing weenies would come up with).
>         you can DL a file from compaq's www-site, that has the configurator,
> which you can run from a floppy. so not all BIOS access is gone; it's just a
> lot harder to get to. ;(
>
> Carl Soderstrom
> System Administrator    307 Brighton Ave.
> Minnesota DHIA          Buffalo, MN
> carls@agritech.com      (612) 682-1091
>
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