[Lancaster] Laptop with no boot order!

[Wayne Ward]

not a bad idea!! ;)

wayne

andy baxter wrote:
> 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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