Compaq Proliant 850R

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Heinrich Egner wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> just bought an old Proliant 850R and installed Linux on it. Everything is
> fine, no problems.
> However, I did not find a way to enter the BIOS to see/change items.
> I can rember from my Compaq Notebook experiences that usually F10 is the
> magic key, but nothing happens.
> There is also no Installation/System floppy. Did not find anything on the
> now HP pages.
> Any idea?
> Thanks, H.E.
The f10 partition on servers is a bit larger than the desktops/notebooks so
it doesn't fit on a few floppies. Find an old smartstart CD and use it
(you will need to have the drive blank though)