Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 10:13:30 -0800 From: "David Burger" <david@unet.tm> To: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@jaguar.ir.miami.edu>, "FreeBSD User Questions List" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Compaq XL590: final word? Message-ID: <002101be01d5$8adf3ba0$7d240b0a@470cdt.hctg.saic.com>
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Compaq computers have a special partition on them for holding the setup and diagnostics utilities. This partition is between 5 and 20 MB depending on the version. What you need to do is to go to Compaq's web site and look for the diagnostic disks. Then use them to create the diags partition and then access bios. It is recommended that you install these diag utilities then the OS or you run the risk of not having enough disk space for the diag partition. David Burger -----Original Message----- From: Joe "Marcus" Clarke <marcus@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> To: FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 9:46 AM Subject: Compaq XL590: final word? >I just found one of these lying around, and I'm trying to put 2.2.7 on it. >It finds all the devices successfully, but when trying to initialize the >ethernet controller (lnc1 via PCI), I get initialization failures. I >searched through the mailing lists, but found no real solution. It seems >some kind of shared IRQ thing is going on...? I can't fiugre out how to >get into the BIOS to check, though (any ideas?). Is there a good solution >for solving this without having the ability to compile a new kernel? >Thanks. > >Joe Clarke > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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