[LINK] Bring your Own Device

[Andy Farkas]

On 07/05/14 12:26, Michael wrote:
> On 7 May 2014 09:37, Jan Whitaker <jwhit at internode.on.net> 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.
>

Jan, the netbooks have the BIOS password on them so you can't
make them boot from a CD to install another OS, or change the
boot order, or enable F11 to choose a boot device, etc.

But I don't understand why Tom didn't type "override bios password"
into google... the first hit I got showed several ways, both hardware
and software:

  http://www.technibble.com/how-to-bypass-or-remove-a-bios-password/

Another method would be to remove the hard drive and attach it
to another computer you own to install ChromeOS, then reinstall
the hard drive back in the netbook.

-andyf