Fwd: [ltp] re-setting boot media

[Dmitriy Morozov]

This got stuck deep down in a thread, but really should be a top level 
post, so that everybody reads and helps if they can.

Dmitriy

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Subject: [ltp] re-setting boot media
Date: Monday 28 June 2004 10:10 am
From: Cheryl Homiak <chomiak@charter.net>
To: Thinkpad mailing list <linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org>

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

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