The easiest way to get around this is to boot from a windows diskette and flash a more liberal bios. You can get an updated bios from compaq directly (it was patched for y2k), although I'm unsure wether this bios will solve your problem.
http://www29.compaq.com/falco/sp_result.asp?Model=2722&Os=0 HTH, Neal. ----- Original Message ----- From: "TooMany Mirrors" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 1:15 AM Subject: Defeting Crappy Bios > I have a compaq computer I got for $30.00 and though a good price, has a > really awful bios feature that not only only lets me boot to a floppy it > won't boot to anything but a windows boot disk. I hostly can't explain it, > but that is the state of things, so don't ask :) > So my question is if there is a way to boot to a windows floppy, I have a > win98 disk available so it's idea for me, and still install Linux. I'm also > concered about being able to boot linux once it's install (if it's installed > :) ) > Thanks for any tips. > By the way it's a Compaq Presario 4714 with a Pentium 1 and 24MB mem so on > an so forth. > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
