[NBLUG/talk] HP BIOS Flash

[Jeff Hemminger]

The bios recognizes the drive correctly, it's a 4 gig hd. It's a Vectra 
VE Series 2 5/75.

E Frank Ball wrote:

>On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 04:55:23PM -0500, jeff at dreadidread.homelinux.org wrote:
>} Hi All,
>} 
>} I have an old HP Vectra P2 that I'm having trouble with. Basically, I can
>} install an OS, but I can't boot it after the install. I get "L", and that's it.
>} I'm pretty sure that's an "L" as in Lilo. Anyway, I've installed a very bare
>} bones RH9.0 on it.
> 
>Getting the boot partition at the beginning was mentioned.  How big does
>the bios think the drive is?
>
>You may need the "linear" option, I did on some of my older HP boxes.
>
>Can you be more specific as to the model?  I have put linux on a wide
>variety of Vectras.
>
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