Compaq Laptop question

[agabriel at coe.neu.edu (Anthony J. Gabrielson)]

Hello,
	After you completely redid the drive, did youput compaqs stuff
back in there?  If your concerned about the mbr just try sys-commander
this way - if it doesn't work, there is an easy uninstall.  That puts what
was there originaly back.

Anthony

On Thu, 20 May 1999, Chuck Young wrote:

> I was working with a new guy last night who had a compaq with one of those
> (annoying in my opinion) compaq partitions with diagnostics and maybe BIOS
> stuff on it.  It was pretty fouled up, so I suggested he nuke the drive
> with nfdisc by seagate and reinstall the compaq software from disks
> available on the web, use DOS to partition off a windows partition and
> then use linux to do the linux install.
> 
> After the second beer, the issue of whether lilo will overwrite the MBR in
> such a way as to render the laptop's ability to access this compaq crap
> came up.  I "believe" the mbr is up for grabs by whatever boot loader you
> choose and it should not affect one's ability to boot into the compaq
> partition or enter the BIOS.  "Believing" and knowing from experience are
> two different issues.
> 
> Does anyone know for sure?  What's up with that partition anyway?  Can you
> hit some keys during boot to access a standard BIOS setup? and another key
> to do "diagnostics" or is it all one big bad hard drive BIOS thing?
> 
> Chuck Young
> GTE Internetworking
> 
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