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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