check on compaqs web-site to see if they have the cmos
setup in a downloadable form that you can place on
floppy disks. I have a compaq proliant 1000 but the cmos
setup was not on the hdd. When I went to the compaq
support site, I was able to find all the info I needed, including
mobo specs.

Garen Evans, II

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Ball" <ball@cyberspace.org>
To: <port-i386@netbsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 12:48 AM
Subject: Compaq diagnostic partition Vs Bootselector


> 
> Hello!
> 
> I've been struggling this evening to make the bootselector
> work on a Compaq (ProLinea?) 4/33s which has a diagnostic
> partition on the first 8 cylinders (~4Mb) of its ATA fixed
> disk. I can make it boot the diagnostic partition by hitting
> F2, hitting F1 just displays "3" and hangs, fdisk -B won't
> let me configure any other boot options.  I'd welcome any
> ideas that people might have. I'm thinking of telling NetBSD
> to use the whole disk, but then I may effectively loose my
> CMOS setup option.
> 
> - Andy Ball.
>