This is great! I'm finally figuring out where I'm getting all of my
information from...there's the BIOS, which doesn't know how big my drive is,
but Win 95 knows, and so does Linux via cfdisk 2.10f. cfdisk says:
/dev/hdd
Size: 2111864832 bytes
Heads: 64
Sectors per Track: 63
Cylinders: 1023
Win 95 knows that there are two partitions.
What I still don't know is where the instruction lives/comes from that says
"Type H to boot from hard disk". Could it live the BIOS?
If I don't type H, I get a black screen that says:
"BootWare Centralized Boot ROM for Netware"
(there's more) along with this:
"MSD: no reply
Rx2 (repeated to the edge of the screen)
File server could not be found "
and it repeats....
Could it be that an ethernet card is causing this problem? I've got two in
there, and Windows says they are the same, but the error messages are leading
me in that direction...
Thanks for all the help!
Russell
On Tuesday 09 October 2001 19:06, you wrote:
> Hi Russell,
> Even though I do not have a compaq here to try out you should have a
> few choices in the bios. Can you enter the parameters of c/h/s in the bios
> or there just drive type numbers. maybe auto detect?
> the c/h/s parameters are on the drive case. If not go to the
> manufactures web site for them. if you cannot type in the parameters , then
> you may need a bios update. what type of drive is the old and the new one,
> manufacturers, ide or scsi. I don't think you need the c/h/s for scsi.
> the link in this email attachment is for the main deskpro2000 site the
> first was for the manual pages. It has links to the bios upgrades also.
> bob
>
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