[nmglug] Another curious conundrum

[Lee Einer]

OK, this one is resolved also. In addition to the bios partition being
wiped, the CMOS battery is dead, and it is not replaceable. So I am
salvaging this one for parts.

lee

Lee Einer wrote:
> Again, thanks to all who helped me recently with the partition issue on
> my laptop.
> 
> I recently received a junker Compaq Prolinea 575 PC as a donation. I was
> going to refurb it and give it out (it has a peewee hard drive and only
> 48 meg of ram, but I figure Zenlive will work on it) but I cannot get it
> to boot from the CDROM.
> 
> You would think that all one has to do is change the boot order in the
> Bios, no? Well on this PC, the CMOS chip was so rinkydink that there was
> not room on it for the bios, so they put a bios partition on the hard
> drive. At some point, probably when the previous owner upgraded the hard
> drive or the OS, that partition was eliminated. So, no bios. This beast
> will not even remember the date and time.
> 
> I tried loading SmartBootManager, but this also does not detect the
> CDROM. Any suggestions as to how I can get this thing to boot from the
> hard drive?
> 
> Lee
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