Re: Compaq Deskpro XL5133
Arrigo Triulzi <arrigo@nh.netherhall.org.uk> writes:
> just wanted to mention that the fix for the boot record is the usual
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda count=422
> and then running lilo again.
Hmm? Is this something we should be doing from dbootstrap, i.e.,
after prompting if the MBR should be removed? Or just added to the
documentation? What problem did this fix?
> Also, the only remaining item for the
> machine to be usable is a X driver for the Compaq QVision (weird
> Matrox chip) which is not available. Still, the machine is usable.
Ugh -- I had a qvision aka AVGA I think which used to run with old 2.x
XFree but was dropped later. I suggest you invest the $40 in a new
video card. What can I say -- proprietary, unsupported hardware...
> The current 2.2 disks still don't boot successfully on the machine. I
> still get an Oops. Just to make you feel better RedHat's 6.1 installer
> disk does the same so it might well be a kernel issue with the AMD
> SCSI chipset.
What someone needs to do is take the stock kernel images, and mess
around with the config until they can get a kernel which is bootable.
Replacing the kernel on the rescue disk is pretty easy.
After we find one that works, we need to compare the kernel config
with the stock one and see if we can safely merge them somehow.
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