Re: Defeting Crappy Bios
Compaqs tend to be problematic. I've worked with several (starting in
1984 with an 8086 DeskPro) and have run into problems of some sort with
every one. If you can get to the BIOS setup, possibly you can
configure it to boot to a CD-ROM or hard drive. Try hitting the F10
key during the boot process.
Friends don't let friends buy Compaq.
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 01:15:39AM -0400, TooMany Mirrors wrote:
> I have a compaq computer I got for $30.00 and though a good price, has a
> really awful bios feature that not only only lets me boot to a floppy it
> won't boot to anything but a windows boot disk. I hostly can't explain it,
> but that is the state of things, so don't ask :)
> So my question is if there is a way to boot to a windows floppy, I have a
> win98 disk available so it's idea for me, and still install Linux. I'm
> also concered about being able to boot linux once it's install (if it's
> installed :) )
> Thanks for any tips.
> By the way it's a Compaq Presario 4714 with a Pentium 1 and 24MB mem so on
> an so forth.
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