[ale] bypassing fingerprint scan to install Linux on laptop

[Jim Kinney]

It requires disassembly of the machine to access the bios chip and a pair of
unlabeled pins that deactivate the bios scanner need. Normally this is done
with the supervisor BIOS password and the hardware hack is dubious at best.

I bet I know what it was donated.

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Daniel Howard <dhhoward at comcast.net> wrote:

> I just got an IBM (Lenovo) Z60t donated for use as a thin client, and
> unfortunately it has a fingerprint scanner that appears to be linked to
> the BIOS and won't let me boot from CD ROM w/o fingerprint scan or even
> log on and start the traditional boot process.
>
> Any suggestions as to how I can reset this thing to install a new OS?
>
> Daniel
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> Georgia Open Source Education Foundation
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