[K12OSN] HP MaxiLife not responding?

[John A. Smith]

>From what I read it does appear that MaxiLife was linked to an HP utility partition. However, I also have come across some info that implies the lm_sensors package works with MaxiLife sensors.

Has anyone used lm_sensors? Or worked with Linux and an HP with MaxiLife?

Right now I have k12ltsp 4.2.1 installed and working, but it won't boot without a couple of keystrokes during the boot routine (i.e., F1 to resume, etc.).


-john smith


----- Original Message -----
David Neimeyer wrote:
> John,
> 
> It not uncommon for vendors to create "hidden" partitions that host
> diagnostic, monitoring, and system restore software/utilities.  So, if
> you are doing a new install of ANY distro, and do not cater to these
> partitions when initializing your partition table, you'll
> unintentionally write over those utilities.
> 
> I totally forgot about that while trying to salvage an old dual pII
> Compaq Proliant recently: the result was that I have to buy a special CD
> from HP/Compaq if I want to utilize the onboard sensors and hardware
> RAID. (plus install a Windows OS to use the CD...blah)
> 
> I would guess this may be what you are seeing.
> 
> 
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> On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 14:02 -0500, John A. Smith wrote:
> > I bought an HP Vectra VL800 - P4 1.3 Ghz, 768 MB Ram - from RetroBox last month to use as a K12LTSP server. This morning I decided to do the install and am running into a couple of problems.
> > 
> > I am getting the following error at boot "0059: MaxiLife not responding Error". From what I can decipher from googling, apparently MaxiLife is some sort of hardware monitoring and diagnostics tool used on the Vectra series. I can't find any reference to this error code or what it means. Has anyone ran across this before? This is the first Vectra I've toyed with.
> > 
> > 
> > TIA,
> > john smith
> > 
> > 
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