Re: [SLUG] OT - Help with Osborne 486
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Tom Massey generated: the key sequence to get into CMOS setup on an Osborne 486 DX4-100 with Phoenix 80486 ROM BIOS PLUS Version 0.10 OLPM30-02? AFAIK the key sequence for Phoenix BIOSs is Ctrl-Alt-Esc.. you have to guess when to press this, because it doesn't prompt you to enter setup. -- jamesw Hoju Keyboard solo! skskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskskksksksksks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
Re: [SLUG] OT - Help with Osborne 486
Osborne! My first computer was an Osborne... 386 with a 100Mb SCSI hard drive. Never had SCSI drives again unfortunately. At the time, everyone hated me because I could install Ultima VII, Windows 3.1, and at one point, this strange new thing I spent night after night downloading... Linux! Um... Anyway... (here comes the "I first installed Linux on a..." thread) None of the usual keys seem to work, Osborne aren't around to ask, Gateway no longer support them, and I can't seem to find anything on the Web. My little box used to respond to Alt-F1, a friends Osborne liked Ctrl-F1 better, and you might want to try every function (F1-12) key you've got, just in case, particularly F10. Osbornes used to have Micronics motherboards way back then, so you might want look for a serial number and search the web for it. - Jeff -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
Re: [SLUG] OT - Help with Osborne 486
Tom Massey wrote:
Hi,
This is a bit of a long shot, and kind of OT, but I'm wondering if
anybody knows the key sequence to get into CMOS setup on an Osborne 486
DX4-100 with Phoenix 80486 ROM BIOS PLUS Version 0.10 OLPM30-02? I'm
trying to get the machine to recognise a CD-ROM drive so I can install
Linux. None of the usual keys seem to work, Osborne aren't around to
ask, Gateway no longer support them, and I can't seem to find anything
on the Web. Any ideas? (I'd prefer not to try doing this with a bunch of
floppies - still have to get the CD-ROM working sometime).
As I understand it, Osborne distributed a CD with each of their
systems that had a maintenance disk on it. You could make this off the
CD on another system. It has the capacity to save and restore the
system configuration. I assume it is talking about bios. This floppy
allowed you to boot off it and re-install you DOS/Win OS stuff.
I haven't found anything for editing the config. AFTIAIK.
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Re: [SLUG] OT - Help with Osborne 486
hi tom from memory, i think it's ctrl-alt-esc. hold down ctrl-alt and keep hitting esc while power up - after memory count of course. however you could always hold down the space bar while powering up and hope to get a key stick error and then it will throw up the hit blahblah to go into setup. also try ctrl-alt-f10 or f12. also alt-f10 maybe. as you can see, it's a long time since i used to set them up too. Tom Massey wrote: Hi, This is a bit of a long shot, and kind of OT, but I'm wondering if anybody knows the key sequence to get into CMOS setup on an Osborne 486 DX4-100 with Phoenix 80486 ROM BIOS PLUS Version 0.10 OLPM30-02? I'm trying to get the machine to recognise a CD-ROM drive so I can install Linux. None of the usual keys seem to work, Osborne aren't around to ask, Gateway no longer support them, and I can't seem to find anything on the Web. Any ideas? (I'd prefer not to try doing this with a bunch of floppies - still have to get the CD-ROM working sometime). Thanks -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text -- _|_ | Thanks, iCafe PTY Limited Ben DonohueWeb Hosting Design [EMAIL PROTECTED]Small Business Office Networks Ph. 0011 61 2 9705 7520 http://www.icafe.com.au Mobile: 0417 018 600ACN 080 665 907 Freedom isn't doing what you want... Freedom is knowing what to do -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
