[NBLUG/talk] HP BIOS Flash

Cal Herrmann calz at eskimo.com
Thu Jul 10 08:02:00 PDT 2003


Did you make an emergency-boot floppy in your Linux installation?
If so I have heard that you can do a repair on /etc/lilo.conf if you get
started.
Cal
On Thu,
10 Jul 2003, Jeff Hemminger wrote:

> 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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