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Add the hint how to install on a Compaq `Aero'.

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Joerg Wunsch 1997-10-19 13:13:04 +00:00
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Hardware Documentation Guide: $Id: hardware.hlp,v 1.29 1997/10/15 04:37:24 jkh Exp $
Hardware Documentation Guide: $Id: hardware.hlp,v 1.30 1997/10/17 06:48:35 msmith Exp $
Contents last changed: Jan 14th, 1997
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For the details refer to the manual page of the disk driver (man 4 wd).
Q: On a Compaq Aero notebook, I get the message "No floppy devices found!
Please check ..." when trying to install from floppy.
A: With Compaq being always a little different from other systems, they
do not announce their floppy drive in the CMOS RAM of an Aero notebook.
Therefore, the floppy disk driver assumes there is no drive configured.
Go to the UserConfig screen, and set the Flags value of the fdc0 device
to 0x1. This pretends the existance of the first floppy drive (as a
1.44 MB drive) to the driver without asking the CMOS at all.
Q: When I go to boot my Intel AL440LX ("Atlanta") -based system from the
hard disk the first time, it stops with a "Read Error" message.