Re: Defeting Crappy Bios
The easiest way to get around this is to boot from a windows diskette and
flash a more liberal bios. You can get an updated bios from compaq directly
(it was patched for y2k), although I'm unsure wether this bios will solve
your problem.
http://www29.compaq.com/falco/sp_result.asp?Model=2722&Os=0
HTH,
Neal.
----- Original Message -----
From: "TooMany Mirrors" <gnudebian@hotmail.com>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 1:15 AM
Subject: Defeting Crappy Bios
> 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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