BIOS Disappeared

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jdunk90

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My BIOS is gone. I've been trying to set up my first computer and I'm having trouble loading any Linux distributions as none of them will recognize my hard drive.

That issue is for another day though. I have been tinkering with BIOS settings trying to get it to work, but now I can't even get to BIOS. There isn't a key sequence shown and I've hit every key and key combo imaginable. How can i get back to BIOS. I have a biostar mobo.
 
there should be a jumper on the motherboard to reset your CMOS. Which Biostar do you have?

Find the jumper. Move it to clear CMOS (check you mobo documentation before moving anything. also note the original position). Boot. Shut down. Move jumper back. Boot again and try to access BIOS.
 
that worked, now do you have any suggestions on how to get Ubuntu or Knoppix to read my hard drive. It shows up in BIOS as IDE Channel 2 Master. The CD Drive is IDE Channel 0. I'm not having problems with it. I can boot the CD and run everything, but I can't install.
 
What version of Ubuntu? maybe try a newer version? You can download the ISO for Gusty now (7.10). Burn it to a CD correctly and boot from it. When in Ubuntu, click Applications, Accessories, Terminal and enter

sudo gparted
Click to expand...

this should this run the partition utility GParted. See if it recognizes your hard drive. It should. At that point resize you windows partition, make 2 new primary partitions, 1 at least 5GB .ext3 and 1 linux-swap that's at least the size of the amount of RAM you have. Close GParted and double click install.

Answer the setup questions. Select "manual" when asked how you want to partition you drive, GParted will run again, select your new .ext3 partition and mount it as root ( / ) and check the box to format it. Check at the end before you start the actual install to make sure you are only formatting the .ext3 partition and the linux-swap partition or you other OSs will be wiped out. Should install fine from there and boot with GRUB after the install.
 
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