On 7 May 2014 09:37, Jan Whitaker <[email protected]> wrote: > At 09:11 AM 7/05/2014, Tom Worthington you wrote: > >They wanted to turn the old Netbooks into Chromebooks > >(which sounds a reasonable idea to me), but have yet to track down the > >code needed to unlock the BIOS to change the OS. > > I don't understand that. Do Chromebooks use a specific bios setting > instead of just installing the operating system for booting like > linux or Windows? I have my netbook set up as dual boot with both > Windows and Ubuntu. (Thanks Brenda). > > Jan >
The Lenovo netbooks supplied in NSW were bios password protected centrally to stop kids changing stuff and to maintain a single standard OS image. I don't know if each device had a different password, or who has access to them now, but I believe they were administered centrally, at least to begin with. I am guessing other states operated similarly. Regards, Michael Skeggs > > > > Melbourne, Victoria, Australia > [email protected] > > Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how > do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your > space. > ~Margaret Atwood, writer > > _ __________________ _ > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link > _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
