Re: Knoppix boot problem

What brand are the computers in question? Some manufacturers have a way
to "overide" the BIOS/CMOS boot sequence. HP for instance has a way to
do it on many different machines, and eah is different. If you get a
model and manufacturer Google for overide BIOS on manufacturer name.. If
this returns no results, go to the manufactures tech site, I Am sure you
will find the pot of gold there.. You can also do a search for BIOS
passwords, it will return "many" different engineering backdoors to BIOS
chips.

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Matt Alexander wrote:

>On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Mark Jarvis wrote:
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>>I had planned to use Knoppix as the basis for a 1 credit Intro to Linux
>>class this fall. Unfortunately, a student in one of the school's labs
>>got a bit too clever, booted from a CD, (not Linux, thank goodness) and
>>did some damage. (I don't know the details.) Now the Lab people are
>>modifying setup on all classroom and lab machines to not allow booting
>>from floppy or CD.
>>
>>Does anyone know of files that can be installed on the C: drive of a W2K
>>box that can be executed, possibly by making use of boot.ini, and which
>>will complete the boot of the system from the floppy or CD drive instead
>>of the HD.?
>>
>>
>
>Would they be willing to tell you the BIOS password (assuming they set
>one) so you can allow booting from CDROM and then disable it at the end of
>each class?
>
>CoLinux might be an option at some point in the future, but development
>seems to have slowed lately:
>
>http://www.colinux.org/
>
>VMWare would also be a nice addition to any lab that teaches the use of
>multiple operating systems.
>
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