Quote Originally Posted by prospero
hmm, no i didn't really change anything in the bios. compaq bios is pretty crappy, everything is "automatic" and not really open to modification. it does know that there is no hard drive and seems to recognize the cd and floppy as the only boot devices. is there something you think i should be looking for in the bios?
I've heard alot of bad things about Compaq's and their lousy BIOS. Bummer you can't make too many changes. It is quite common to disable Plug n Play when running Linux. Also if you can, disable the automatic assignment of IRQ's. Turn off Auto Power Mgmt. If I think of anything else I'll post back.