[Lancaster] Laptop with no boot order!

[andy baxter]

If you've looked for the BIOS hotkey and find that the BIOS is 
password-locked, you might be able to get round this by removing the 
battery from the mainboard. Most boards have a small rechargeable watch 
battery on them which keeps the BIOS's memory running when the power is 
switched off.

But:
- this may be different for laptops which have their own battery pack - 
not sure.
- laptops are trickier to dismantle than desktop machines, so it depends 
on how adventurous you're feeling.

andy

Wayne Ward wrote:
> one more thing you could try...
>
> take the drives out of the laptop and sap them over install it on the 
> other laptop
> and pop the drive back in after the install sometimes works .....  ;)
>
> Wayne
>
> Rik Boland wrote:
>   
>> Good after-noon bro,
>>
>> If I did it from a usb key but I can't get this second machine to boot 
>> from any other devices then how this work?
>>
>> On this XP machine there no icons on screen or start buttons. No nothing!
>>
>> Shalom
>>
>> Wayne Ward wrote:
>>     
>>> you could try a external usb cdrom or if you are wanting to install 
>>> linux on it
>>> you can transfer a install image onto a usb key and install from that
>>> there are plenty of howto for making a usb install if you have a 
>>> ubuntu on another
>>> laptop or computer its realy easy to install to a usb key
>>> on a mac you just put one laptop into transfer mode and install from 
>>> another computer over firewire !! yum yum :)
>>>
>>> Rik Boland wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> Work was throwing out a laptop that was connected to the network.  
>>>> It now @ my house and I am wanting to put Linux on it but when I 
>>>> boot up it won't read the CD nor can I get into the BIOS to change 
>>>> its boot order,  what can I do?
>>>>
>>>> Shalom
>>>>
>>>> Rik
>>>>
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