[CoLoCo] Live cd on Lenovo T61 Thinkpad

[TC]

I am personally disgusted that a tax supported entity does not support
using FOSS.

You know, since it's cheaper and all.

Richard Guenther wrote:
> It does not give me the option to boot from media, unfortunately.  It
> appears it's the Intel Management Engine password, and it is not on the
> default of "admin", so, yes, they set it.  What frustrates me about this
> is that they don't want to "support" any hardware except Dell and this
> laptop was a donation to my Mesa programming club.  I never wanted their
> help with it in the first place.  This isn't the case of a guy steeling
> a laptop and then wanting to crack the ME password--although I'm sure
> that's how my recent google searches appeared (lol).
> 
> So it appears I have three or four choices:
> 
> 1.  Beg them to give me the password.  I think some wetware hacking may
> work here, as it appears the only real anti-Linux, anti-FOSS element is
> at the top levels of the dept, not the guys who go and do the actual
> installation work. :-)
> 
> 2.  Keep using just Windows on the laptop.  Painful.  At least a
> dual-boot would be better than that.
> 
> 3.  Pop out the CMOS battery and try to get the default "admin/admin"
> login to work....
> 
> Thanks for responding, guys.  This is kind of a "matter of principals"
> thing.  Our IT dept is still very MS-centric and I'm kind of a rebel by
> birth.  That said, it really stinks that I have to beg them to install
> any FOSS like Notepad++ and Python, when I'd just install it myself if
> they'd give any of us install privileges. 
> 
> I'll keep looking into this.  I wouldn't usually consider such extreme
> tactics, but it reeks that their new policy is to ignore all non-Dell
> hardware any of our teachers may be using.  That even made my
> administrator angry enough to endorse me wiping Windows off the laptop
> completely.  Which will probably happen in time. 
> 
> In time....
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Chomafin <chomafin at gmail.com>
> To: Ubuntu Colorado Local Community Team <ubuntu-us-co at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 6:16:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [CoLoCo] Live cd on Lenovo T61 Thinkpad
> 
> I agree with Paul,
> It sounds like your IT group has set up a bios password to stop you from
> playing with your boot order and what not. When you are starting up the
> pc with the live disk in, does it ever give you an option to boot from
> media?  I use a  T60 at work, so I can check tomorrow if you've not
> figured it out. I seem to recall having to hit F2 or something during
> boot to load from CD.
> 
> 
> 
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