A bright idea...

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sun Jun 24 23:28:09 UTC 2007


Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 20:56 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> At my university, the winboxen can boot from usb, but they are
>> configured to boot ONLY from disk. The BIOS is also password
>> protected, and the case is locked. What is a poor Fedora junkie to do?
>>
>> I unplugged one of the machines, then wormed a plastic stick (actually
>> a stepped-on mechanical pencil) into the case, and actually managed to
>> pop out the motherboard's button battery! Ten minutes later, there was
>> no more password on the BIOS...

> Thhe BIOS police are going to get you :-)
> Of course all the other BIOS parameters were gone also.

That would be the other non-default bios parameters.  The defaults are 
usually usable, if not optimal for most situations.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com






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