[ltp] re-setting boot media

[Cheryl Homiak]

I'm sorry this is not strictly a linux question, but I'm not subscribed to 
any non-linux lists that might be able to help me with this, so please 
bear with me. Linux is the OS I am using with my thinkpad T23 but I don't 
know if there might be any in-linux solution to this, if there's a 
solution at all.
I am blind and therefore can not read and change my bios by myself; screen 
readers don't start until an OS starts. I had the default settings for 
which media the thinkpad t23 used to boot, so I think it was booting from 
floppy if available, then hard disk. I had found out that I could hit f12 
and arrow down twice, however, to temporarily boot from cdrom. recently a 
sighted person supposedly reset my bios so I could boot from cdrom. I 
don't know what he actually did but now I can't boot from cdrom no matter 
what I do; when I reboot or startup with a bootable cdrom (it's the port 
that can hold either a cdrom or a floppy or I think a dvd/cdrecorder 
combination) I get sent to lilo, and using f12 at boot, no matter how many 
times I arrow up or down, doesn't result in a cdrom boot either. what I 
want to know is whether there's any way to change this back without 
getting into the bios. the only reason I'm hopeful there might be such a 
solution is that there was a .bat file i was able to use to turn my serial 
port on instead of infrared. Unfortunately I don't have dos or dosemu on 
my laptop right now even if there is a bat file, but I do have it on my 
laptop so I might be able to ssh in and do it somehow if there was such a 
solution. Guess I'm grasping at straws, but I'm really ticked that I won't 
be able to boot from cdrom on this laptop until I get somebody back in 
here to undo the damage.
If anybody knows of any possible solutions to this, I'd be very 
appreciative.
Thanks.


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Cheryl

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."