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Thu Nov 03, 2005 8:26 am Post subject:
Compaq M300 requires hdd to boot? |
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I have a compaq m300 (ca. 2000), with a docking station, and the hard
drive just died. I only use it for browsing the web, so I was hoping
to just run a live CD linux variant. Unfortunately, I seem to be
unable to get it to boot from the CD unless there is a working hard
drive in the bay. With the broken hard drive in place, it fails after
the Compaq splash screen with a "bad drive parameters" error. With the
hard drive out, it fails with "1782 - Disk Controller Failure". But if
I place a working drive into the system, it boots from the CD just
fine. Has anyone else tried using a driveless M300 for booting Knoppix
or the like? Is there a secret key I can press to skip the hard drive
test? |
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