Hi Russell,
I sent a message to compaq support and got a message back that was not the greatest but one thing they said was to make sure that both hard drives have the jumper for
"cs" (drive select) on because the bios uses this type of drive selection due to its bios drive management software. Since the bios does not work with master/slave and you
may have slave set on the second drive. Also I have a system with a network card that spits out the message to press a certain key to boot from rom on the network card (and
this happens on all boots), which when is pressed on your system causes the system to go to a default boot. The text that I sent you before describes the disk system
settings for the compaq system that you have. The code for the type "H" for boot probably resides in the bios of the net card like in my system, except that my system does
not have a boot prom, and your system may not have a boot prom in it also but the prompt has been enabled by the bios confusion. Did you install the cs jumper on the new or
all drives???
bob
Russell Hires wrote:
> 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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