Thread: Deskpro: can't boot from hd, or run setup from floppy; not newbie, have rtfm
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Old November 28th 06, 08:09 PM posted to comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq,comp.os.linux.setup
Trevor Hemsley
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Default Deskpro: can't boot from hd, or run setup from floppy; not newbie, have rtfm
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:59:04 UTC in comp.os.linux.hardware,
wrote:

Now the Compaq firmware won't boot from the HD ("1790 - Disk 0 error"),
and it wants me to run the Compaq setup utility (at one point it
displayed

I had Deskpro 2000's of a similar vintage that had an 8GB BIOS bug and refused
to boot if a hard disk greater than that was installed. They also issued the
1790 (or maybe some other 17xx) message.

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