[Lancaster] Laptop with no boot order!

[andy baxter]

P.S. if you bring it to the meeting tomorrow evening, people could have 
a look at it then.

andy

andy baxter wrote:
> 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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