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From: Mouser on 13 Jul 2006 09:09 ....And the responses from nearly everyone support my point about endless pages of invective.
From: YKhan on 13 Jul 2006 10:13 Rod Speed wrote: > > or were they some kind of proprietary boot loaders, only recognized by one particular > > manufacturer or model? > > Nope, if that was what was done, the HP site would have said that. The only thing that the HP website talked about was how to boot the original recovery CD, and nothing else. Nothing else is guaranteed it seems. Yousuf Khan
From: YKhan on 13 Jul 2006 10:21 Unruh wrote: > Does the machine have a floppy drive? You can boot from floppy in order to > install Linux. Actually it does have a floppy drive, but there are no floppy disks available. Besides even if we did get a floppy disk to boot from, there's no guarantee that the drive even works any longer. The perils of old technology. Yousuf Khan
From: Yousuf Khan on 13 Jul 2006 12:50 Rod Speed wrote: > Quite a few of the cdrom drives of that era didnt like burnt CDs. > > Easy to try that possibility by replacing it with a modern drive. Yeah, we did try that too. Took a relatively modern DVD burner (pre-dual-layer though) from their other system and put it on here, exact same result. Also tried an intermediate-generation 32X CD burner, just for completeness -- all exactly the same. If as George MacDonald suggests that the El Torito standard was not completely implemented in this BIOS, then some CD-ROMs will not boot up, no matter how modern the drive is that it attached to it. Yousuf Khan
From: Yousuf Khan on 13 Jul 2006 12:54
George Macdonald wrote: > There were early El Torito BIOS implementations which only worked with > "floppy emulation" boot mode and vice versa. I definitely recall a system > which would boot from emulation CDs but not with Microsoft OS bootable CDs > - this seems to be the converse case. If all else fails you could always > try a boot manager > Well, unfortunately it's now too late to put a boot manager on it. The previous OS has been completely wiped off of its hard drive, and now it's simply a matter of either reinstalling Windows 95 on it from its recovery CD, or getting one of these Linux distros onto its hard disk from another system. What are these Linux true image CD's? Maybe we can install one of these things and have it complete its own installation from its own hard drive? Yousuf Khan |