[linux-help] Re: Can't mount cdrom

[Anne McCadden <ironrose@xxxxxxx>]

I have a Compaq cimputer like that and I would be willing to sell it 
very cheap.  It is a P-150 with 32mb of parity ram, 500mb scsii hard 
drive and a scsii cd-rom, and a 14-15in monitor.  It is suppose to work, 
but I haven't been able to figure hout how to get it to work.  Any 
offers?  ~Anne

bruce wrote:

>On Tuesday 09 July 2002 12:30 am, you wrote:
>
>>I hate to tell you this but on most Compaq machines you need to have a BIOS
>>BOOT disk since it seems that you have formatted over the BIOS BOOT SECTOR
>>of your systems harddrive when you installed Linux. Other wise it should be
>>'F-10' key
>>
>
>Thanks, David.  When I ran fdisk, there was a partition of two or three 
>cylinders at the front which I reckoned was diagnostics or bios or something 
>to leave - so I left it there.
>
>This morning I downloaded two floppies of setup and tried it.  Compaq really 
>isn't with the rest of the world.  I managed to add a small hard drive, but 
>couldn't make it admit that someone would want to add a cdrom.  Nearest I 
>could find was type 15 - 1 cylinder, 1 head, and 1 sector per cylinder.  I 
>put that in and the hard drive is recognized, but still no cdrom.
>
>Still struggling, 
>bruce
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