Re: Compaq Presario "reboot" problems

[Nick Warne <nick@linicks.net>]

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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