[Sheflug] Re: Booting a Compaq Prosignia server

[Richard Ibbotson <nospam [at] sheflug.co.uk>]

James

> >or, if it is set to that, its presumably a BIOS problem - check
> > the boot order etc as it might be that the hard disk isn't even
> > being told it should boot.
> It may be the boot order that needs changing but I cannot get into
> the BIOS because it uses the strange
> Compaq configuration software that has to be installed on the hard
> disk. I cannot boot from the floppy either, I
> think it has been disabled because the machine was being used as a
> server.

I had a Compaq laptop last year that arrived from Sterling Management 
Systems without the utilities partition in it.  I installed it and 
booted from /boot.  Worked fine.  Change that in Lilo config under 
YaST.  That was without the Compaq stuff on a hidden partition.  
Couldn't find anyone to help me out.
 
> The other thing that David told me is that on of his machines the
> SUSE 7.2 Yast2 install did not mark the /boot partition as active
> and he had to use a Win98 boot disk and Fdisk to set the active
> partition.

Oh .... that's a bit unusual.  You must be suffering from the kind of 
one off that I get most days :))

Thanks

-- 
Richard
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