John,
Check the HD with fdisk and see if there is a small 2mb partition on
the drive or if you see the cursor moves from the far top left corner to
the far top right corner breifly during POST... the Cpq's have built in
diags and drivers on compaq factory HD's so they be causing the problem.
Curt
John Boffemmyer IV wrote:
Anyone know where I can obtain a PS/2 ISA mouse port card? The PS/2
header on my AT board is shot and rather than tracing down broken
traces and bad resisters, etc. I'd rather just replace the damned
thing with something that works. Once that is done, my one classic
Linux box is done (P200MMX, 48MB SIMMS, 8GB Hard Drive). It's holding
me back and annoying me because I had wanted to toy around with the
new KDE. The other machine is newer (not so classic), but still kinda
old. A Crappaq Presario that someone was nice enough to take the model
panel off of the front and remove the serial sticker from the back.
It's a PII-400Mhz with 96MB SDRAM, built-in DEC Tulip 10MBit NIC, ESS
AudioDrive and ATi Rage LT Pro AGP on a 440BX proprietary board. I
have a 2GB Maxtor IDE and a 4GB half-height Seagate SCSI in it with an
8x Compaq SCSI CD-ROM. The thing that's driving me nuts is getting the
whole thing to work with Slack or Gentoo. Neither want to load right
for some reason (boot partition is not there?). It's trying to boot
off the Adaptec AHA-1542B card I had commented about. I'm thinking of
going IDE CD-ROM in it just to get the friggin thing loaded on the IDE
drive and then just tooling with it to get the SCSI later. Any thoughts?
-John Boffemmyer IV
PS: Don't I owe someone on here five bucks for one of these cards?
Whomever it is, contact me off list and I'll arrange to pay
immediately with some sort of interest.
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