Franklin S Werren wrote: > Hi All; > > I have notice that some of the later model desktops will not load up with > BlueOnyx > either the CentOS or the SL versions. These are either HP or Compaq desktops > that had XP on them and I have replaced the old drives with with new 2 tb hard > drives and either 2 gigs of ram or 4 gigs of ram. I have read on > Slashdot that some of the mfg's are installing or will be installing Windows > only > BIOS in the home/office based computers. > > Is this an issue just limited with the HP/Compaq desktops or is there a > trick to load them up with BlueOnyx ?? > Maybe there is an extra command to force a load up??? > > Ideas ???? > > PS I prefer not trash a good computer just because the it will not load up. > It is not very Green of me and I like to recycle.
Hi Franklin, Does the system boot from the CD/DVD drive? If not, you might try booting with another optical drive. We keep a little batch of USB-DVD drives floating around the datacenter for that purpose (plus a lot of systems don't come with optical drives anymore). Also keep in mind that some older systems may not recognize a 2TB HDD. You could always try putting in a smaller drive, say one of the drives that probably came out of those old desktops. We have loaded 5107R on old Pentium3 servers with 512MB RAM, to dual-quad boxes with 32GB RAM. We generally don't use 2TB drives but 1.5's have not been an issue. Maybe give us a little more info on where you're getting the failure? -- Chris Gebhardt VIRTBIZ Internet Services Access, Web Hosting, Colocation, Dedicated www.virtbiz.com | toll-free (866) 4 VIRTBIZ _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx