[rescue] OpenBSD on Intel (actually)

[Jeffrey Nonken]

On Sat, 26 Apr 2003 09:12:11 -0400, Jeffrey Nonken <jeff_work at nonken.net>
wrote:

On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 13:23:20 -0400, "Sheldon T. Hall" <shel at cmhcsys.com>
wrote:

> > > I'd make sure you have plug and play OS turned off in the BIOS (this
will
> > > make the BIOS do any plug and play resource assignment).  If you have
an
> > > option in your bios to reset the "remembered" plug and play data (can't
> > > recall what this was called), change that to yes and reboot.. .maybe
that
> > > data is hosed).
> >
> > Heh.  If I could get into the BIOS.  No key combo I've tried will do it.
I
> > scoured the Dell website, and the ones there didn't help.  I even
_called_
> > Dell, and they couldn't give me one that would work.  It's Phoenix BIOS,
but
> > none of the usual Phoenix sequences work.  I've tried F2 (and all the
other
> > F-ing keys), Del, Ctrl-Alt-Enter, Ctrl-Alt-Ins, Ctrl-Alt-Esc, Alt-Esc,
> > two-elbows-on-the-keyboard, Esc-Meta-Alt-Ctrl-Shift .... No joy in any
case.
>
> CTRL-ALT-ENTER comes to mind for the older Dells, but he's already tried
> that one.
>
> Have you tried applying it _after_ the POST?
>

Though it seems to me that any computer old enough to need CTRL-ALT-ENTER
predates Plug-n-Pray.

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