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Badflash Bios (modified 0 times) mehuman Profile I ordered a badflash bios, recieved it, and installed it. Qnx would not boot. No biggie was going to write over it anyway, also read that v5 and the bios wont boot qnx. Got a laptop harddrive installed linux, made it bootable, put jailbait on it. Went to boot the hard drive and i get a Rom Bios upgrade message and it freezes, The hard drive is detected and displayed as being there. 04-02-2002 16:51:29

RE:Badflash Bios (modified 0 times) oldman Profile | Email mehuman: i like that username. did you go into the cmos setup (by typing ctrl + alt + esc during the start-up screen on your real ps/2 keyboard that is connected to your i-o with your ibm thinkpad keyboard/mouse splitter or equivalet) and change the boot device from D (the SanDisk) to C (the hard drive)? have fun oldman 04-02-2002 21:26:44

RE:Badflash Bios (modified 0 times) mehuman Profile Yes i have made sure that it is booting from c: 04-03-2002 14:02:45

RE:Badflash Bios (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email Just a thought if nothing else works. Did you enable LBA-mode when you installed Linux on that laptop hard-drive? The IOpener and your Desktop-Computer may be disagreeing about the drive's physical geometry. Try setting the disk-boot order from "C Only" to "SMARTBOOT". This will give you a boot-menu that's a little more interactive, and is somewhat helpful in debugging these kinds of bootup issues.. (if only to get the "Disk Error" pop-ups..). If Smart Boot Manager refuses to boot the drive, it's probably the disk-geometry problem mentioned earlier. Manually setting LBA mode for the drive (Using your Desktop's BIOS Setup screen) and then reinstalling Linux is likely able to work around this issue. -WP 04-03-2002 16:50:50

RE:Badflash Bios (modified 0 times) mehuman Profile I had tried useing smartboot and i did get disk errors. I will try tomorrow to change the geometry and report back. 04-03-2002 18:44:47

RE:Badflash Bios (modified 0 times) mehuman Profile -WP good suggestion. It booted once and everything was going good, until linux detected the sandisk. I got errors about the FAT on the san. Tried to reboot and back to the same problem. 04-04-2002 15:50:27

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