On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 20:56 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > At my university, the winboxen can boot from usb, but they are > configured to boot ONLY from disk. The BIOS is also password > protected, and the case is locked. What is a poor Fedora junkie to do? > > I unplugged one of the machines, then wormed a plastic stick (actually > a stepped-on mechanical pencil) into the case, and actually managed to > pop out the motherboard's button battery! Ten minutes later, there was > no more password on the BIOS... > > Dotan Cohen Thhe BIOS police are going to get you :-) Of course all the other BIOS parameters were gone also.