From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Feb 2 15:52:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA21269 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 2 Feb 1997 15:52:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from wiz.eece.ksu.edu (root@wiz.eece.ksu.edu [129.130.40.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA21264 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 1997 15:52:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by wiz.eece.ksu.edu (Smail3.1.29.1 #11) id m0vrBhj-000OccC; Sun, 2 Feb 97 17:52 CST Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 17:52:09 -0600 (CST) From: Christopher Casey To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Compaq setup woes Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Troubles in getting freebsd to live in a compaq presario. first of all the setup is broke and can only be accessed by booting a f10 boot disk, and it will not check the 2 user configurable hard drive types against the drive in the machine. just the first.. but thats a whole other problem. the main thing is the computer somehow hoses the filesystem if you boot with a setup floppy. it whines about a diagnostics partition and says its bad and needs to be reinstalled. but even when there is nothing on the drive at all, no partitions or anything it says there is no space to have one. i have set the drive type to 'other operation system' instead of 'dos or dos and windows'. does someone know what this thing is trying to do that hoses the drive? after it hoses it fdisk will not see the disk geometry right on a bootable dos floppy or in freebsd install floppy. i have to take it to another machine.. which is a packard bell and has about as many problems. i love stupid computer setup things. they flock to me. anyone changed the bios on a compaq to something like phoenix or something that somewhat works? thanks Chris Casey