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On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 09:15:48AM +0000, Michael Kintzios wrote |
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> Compaq tend to 'compaqify' their boxes by plastering their company |
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> logo into every splash screen you can imagine, including these days |
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> their BIOS screen. I am not sure how their boxen were configured |
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> a few years ago but these days everything can be 'disinfected' and |
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> returned to default component settings. I am not what you mean by |
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> BIOS partition. I don't know if they would save a BIOS image to |
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> reflash the BIOS with their corporate splash screen and preferred |
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> settings in case the CMOS battery ran out or was removed by the user. |
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> On the other hand, they may just saved the splash screen on the hdd |
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> because back then there would be much less storage space for silly |
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> splash screens on the BIOS itself? |
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No, it was for screen settings and BIOS parameters. If you have a |
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really old Compaq, go to their download webpage and get the floppy image |
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for your model. You have to boot from the floppy, and save to the |
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hidden partition, creating it if necessary. It occupied the first |
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cylinder, and definitely did not have enough space to store the OS. |
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> Hmm, did you then boot Linux using LiLo, or by chainloading LiLo via |
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> the M$Windoze bootloader? |
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lilo on /dev/hda |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca |
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