From: Nick Warne <nick@linicks.net>
To: linux-os (Dick Johnson) <linux-os@analogic.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>,
Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>
Subject: Re: Compaq Presario "reboot" problems
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:14:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511181514.13467.nick@linicks.net> (raw)
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> On Thursday 17 November 2005 20:51, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
>>
>> With Linux-2.4.26 I reported that if a Compaq gets rebooted while
>> running Linux-2.4.26, it will not be able to restart Windows 2000.
>> It cam restart Linux fine. Today, I tried the same thing with
>> Linux-2.6.13.4. It fails, too.
I am following this thread and this thought just occurred to me.
A few years back I installed Linux on a Compaq box and used fdisk etc. as you
do. It turned out I wiped the BIOS settings, and further investigation at
the time revealed that they use a hidden partition on the drive for the BIOS
stuff. I told fdisk to wipe all.
After this, the machine worked ok, just that I had no BIOS options at all - it
beeped a bit at me at boot, but came up OK and worked for a few years until I
binned it.
Just a thought on what is going on here.
Nick
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next reply other threads:[~2005-11-18 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-18 15:14 Nick Warne [this message]
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2005-11-19 5:05 ` Compaq Presario "reboot" problems Robert Hancock
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2005-11-17 18:51 linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-11-17 18:39 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-11-17 23:26 ` Ondrej Zary
2005-11-18 11:48 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-11-19 13:39 ` Ondrej Zary
2005-11-18 11:51 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-11-18 12:48 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-11-18 14:15 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-11-19 14:44 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-11-21 17:52 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-11-21 18:58 ` Stefan Seyfried
2005-11-22 14:09 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-11-22 14:19 ` Denis Vlasenko
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