I have a couple of compaq armadas that had the original bios partition. In fact, the dignostic partition is not needed at all. I totally formatted the HDD to remove it and then installed Linux. No problems. I have a second HDD which I also formatted and then installed windows followed by Linux. Again, no problems. The bios features (indeed a whole range of on board hardware upgrades) for your laptop can be upgraded with compaq softpaqs and the dignostic partion can also be recreated with a softpaq. Go to compaqs website for info and downloads.
Yours, Ian > I have a Compaq Presario 1640 laptop that happily > ran Linux in a > dual-boot situation for the last year and a half. > Recently the hard > drive failed and, once it was replaced, I thought it > would be a perfect > opportunity to reclaim some disk space and reinstall > only Linux. > Unfortunately, Compaq does some wierd proprietary > partitioning things to > the hard drive and BIOS so that any installation of > just Linux leaves me > with a working copy that will give all sorts of > write past sector and > data corruption errors. Compaq is less than > forthcoming about how to > overcome this. > > So, has anyone had success installing Linux on a > Compaq laptop? If so, > how did you overcome the partition issue? > > Thanks, > Roger Shaffer Jr. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
