[KLUG Members] partition check?

[Gettig,Tony]

This is not a fun thing to deal with. My experience with
 this, and specifically with Compaq, has been to load the
 utility partition from whatever CD comes with the system,
 or possibly a downloaded softpaq of some sort. But this
 means you lose everything on the drive as their utility
 creates it's little "bios" partition again. I haven't used
 the bios-on-a-floppy thing, mainly because it seems a
 hassle. Then again, it may be hassle well worth it if you
 have a lot on your laptop and can't wipe it. As always,
 YMMV.


Tony Gettig
http://www.penguindude.com
GBY!



Yes, Compaq has been known to do that.  You -can- get back
 into the BIOS, but you typically need to download 1 or 2
 SoftPaq's from them and shove it onto floppy disks --
 which only come in .exe format if my memory serves me
 correctly.  The BIOS config tool varies from model to
 model (logically) ... so you'll have to do some hunting on
 their website to find it.

When you get it right from the factory they put a little
 partition with all that software on it formatted as FAT.
  I have no idea what steps you'd need to take to restore
 that partition though if you ever wanted too.  Perhaps
 somebody else on the list will know that, if that's your
 goal.

Justin Buist


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Katsma [mailto:bkatsma@attbi.com]
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 10:06 PM
To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] partition check?


>
> Yes, I've seen machines that do this habitually,  but
 usually only when
> running on older kernels.  Try going into BIOS and
 finding a setting
> about UDMA, etc... and turning it off.  Might help to
 check your IDE
> cable as well.
>
Unfortunitally this is compaq laptop computer and ever
 since I loaded Linux
I can no longer get into the BIOS configuration.  From what
 I have read
Compaq is known for buting there BIOS on the HD. (If that
 makes any sence)

Thanks

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