Unable to access System Partition (F10)

[Ayman Altounji]

Installed Caldera OpenLinux on DL380 using SmartStart 5.0 and manual install. After array config (5304 - RAID 0), the System Partition is installed. After this the O/S is installed and all seems to work....except the prompt "Press F10 for System Partition" is displayed for about 1 second followed by "... stage 2" that is so quick I can't read it. Then the O/S comes up. Pressing F10 does nothing. I cannot access the System Partition. Any ideas?
So far, 4 installations (on ML370, DL380, Integrated RAID, 5304, and embedded SCSI) all fail the same way.
Must system config be run from SmartStart if Caldera is installed?

[Ayman Altounji]

This issue concerns *all* Compaq PCs: The key for setup does not longer work when installed LILO. To solve this issue, look for the Compaq diagnostic partition. Example ("fdisk"/"p" command):

Disk /dev/ida/c0d0: 255 heads, 32 sectors, 26148 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8160 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/ida/c0d0p1 10 26148 106647120 5 Extended
/dev/ida/c0d0p3 1 9 36704 12 Compaq diagnostics
/dev/ida/c0d0p5 10 14 20384 83 Linux
/dev/ida/c0d0p6 15 46 130544 82 Linux swap
/dev/ida/c0d0p7 47 26148 106496144 83 Linux

Note: ID 0x12 = Compaq's F10 setup!

=> Modify /etc/lilo.conf and add an entry

#
other = /dev/ida/c0d0p3
label = CompaqSetup
table = /dev/ida/c0d0

and run "lilo" to rebuild the bootstrap. With this way, you can go to the BIOS setup using LILO.

Andreas

[Ayman Altounji]

This problem has been solved by not installing the MBR to the boot partition. This is an option during the installation of Caldera Server version 3.1. Using the automatic configuration, the compaq partition is p3, root is p5.