Re: Blown BIOS, no boot

[Mark Neidorff <mark neidorff com>]

Sounds like something is really wrong with that machine. Hmmm, was the
original battery rechargable & did you replace it with the same type of
rechargable?  Is the voltage the same?

What you are reporting sounds like something is intermittantly connecting
& disconnecting.  Perhaps it won't make a good router?

Mark

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 cbsled ncia net wrote:

> On 01/31/02, at 10:57 PM, John P Verel <jverel optonline net> said:
> 
> >Did you get an error code along side the "L"?
> No error code, just the "L".
> -------
> File this one under "Go Figure".
> I guess it just needed a really cold boot. 
> After sitting overnight, it now boots from the boot floppy that didn't work yesterday.
> ... but not from the HD.
> Oh, wait, now it won't boot from the boot floppy again?!?
> Wait, now it will. Just had to wait two minutes. Weird.
> 
> So now I've got it booted. How do I fix lilo?
> Running /sbin/lilo (again) didn't fix it.
> It was working before the battery change.
> 
>