On Tuesday 21 March 2006 06:59 am, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 23:22 -0500, Donald Ade wrote:
On Monday 20 March 2006 19:07, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Donald Ade wrote:
On 3/20/06, Mauricio Teixeira (netmask)
wrote: Em Seg, 2006-03-20 às 14:24 -0500, Donald Ade escreveu:
I want to Install Suse 10 on my Sony Vaio that has cdrom drive and no
So you mean you can't boot off your PCMCIA CDROM? I'm asking because it's a very common situation with Vaio. In this case, you just need to use "ide1=0x180,0x386" (or ide2) on the boot options and be happy. :)
I don't know if it boots from PCMCIA. I do know that it didn't boot from the proprietary sony cdrom drive, I don't want to spend any money on this thing.
It does boot from the proprietary sony cdrom drive, but you have to connect it and then enable/configure it in BIOS before it does.
Cheers -e
BIOS is locked so...no boot other then HD.
Isn't there a reset for the BIOS that would remove the lock? I would think that there would be even if it requires you to do a partial disassemble of the laptop.
Yes and No. Yes for some Sony Vaio laptops there are such features both physical (jumpers) and software. This particular Vaio model (as well as others) has soft jumpers that can only be reset via "master" password. The password is genarated by a Sony Technician based on your serial number (which in my case is wipe from existence). So for me no serial number, no master password, and no bios reset. If there was a battery to pop i would have during one of my numerous dismantling of the system. There is no physical way of reseting the password in this situation. - dade