[NBLUG/talk] HP BIOS Flash
Jeff Hemminger
jeff at dreadidread.homelinux.org
Thu Jul 10 06:11:01 PDT 2003
The bios recognizes the drive correctly, it's a 4 gig hd. It's a Vectra
VE Series 2 5/75.
E Frank Ball wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 04:55:23PM -0500, jeff at dreadidread.homelinux.org wrote:
>} Hi All,
>}
>} I have an old HP Vectra P2 that I'm having trouble with. Basically, I can
>} install an OS, but I can't boot it after the install. I get "L", and that's it.
>} I'm pretty sure that's an "L" as in Lilo. Anyway, I've installed a very bare
>} bones RH9.0 on it.
>
>Getting the boot partition at the beginning was mentioned. How big does
>the bios think the drive is?
>
>You may need the "linear" option, I did on some of my older HP boxes.
>
>Can you be more specific as to the model? I have put linux on a wide
>variety of Vectras.
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