[rescue] OpenBSD on Intel (actually)

[Robert Rose]

At 10:05 AM 26/04/2003 -0500, jeff_work at nonken.net wrote:
> > > 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.

Hmm, maybe it's time to try the deliberate error trick, works on IBM 
300GL/PL boxen at work.  Heres what you do:

1. Power off peecee, open it up and remove something like the floppy cable 
or a simm.
2. Power it up, wait for it to bitch about the problem.
3. See if it throws you into the BIOS configuration to fix the error.
4. Make the changes you actually needed to make, plus you'll probably need 
to amend the configuration to tell it there is no floppy/less ram.
5. Power off, replace the floppy cable or simm.
6. Power it up, re-fix the error in the BIOS again.
7. Power off, replace cover and you're good.

Rob.