hi all, my friend bought a hp omnibook, p2 400, 4100 series, for her son for
school.
well the operating system is 982nd, but full of major crap, so he did fdisk,
then reformatted it. so good so far, but now we cant get it to boot to the
cd rom, seams like the floppy and cd rom arnt hot swappable, and the bios
has a pass word on it, so we cant get in the bios to do a boot to cd
command, all tho i can tap the esc key at start up, and get to the boot up
device screen, but i guess i dont have the cd rom drivers in c:
i copied the fdisk files to c: , trying to get it to boot to c: with the cd
rom in, so i can change to cd and run setup.
im having no luck here,
can someone give me some light here, smile.
thanks in advance all.
~ mark ~

check out this site for some info to help you get a boot disk...
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

Sucks!

Contact hp to see if there is a jumper or keyboard sequence setting to
wipe the bios password. If it's a jumper be extremely careful getting
access to it.

If it won't boot off the cdrom after breaking into the bios your next
bet would be to get the hdd booting by itself with a boot floppy.

Format a floppy with "format a: /s /u" from another computer running
Win98se. Put format, fdisk, sys, mscdex and a cdrom driver on the
floppy. Don't forget himem.sys. Enclude a tiny text editor if you've
never done "copy con > filename" before.

Format the hdd with "format c: /s /u" to copy the system boot files.

Onced the hdd is bootable copy over the drivers and either create or
copy a working set of config.sys and autoexec.bat to call the cdrom
driver from the c drive. Reboot the system and then load from the cdrom.

Whew!

And yet they laid me off...


~ OTH ~ wrote:

> hi all, my friend bought a hp omnibook, p2 400, 4100 series, for her son for
> school.
> well the operating system is 982nd, but full of major crap, so he did fdisk,
> then reformatted it. so good so far, but now we cant get it to boot to the
> cd rom, seams like the floppy and cd rom arnt hot swappable, and the bios
> has a pass word on it, so we cant get in the bios to do a boot to cd
> command, all tho i can tap the esc key at start up, and get to the boot up
> device screen, but i guess i dont have the cd rom drivers in c:
> i copied the fdisk files to c: , trying to get it to boot to c: with the cd
> rom in, so i can change to cd and run setup.
> im having no luck here,
> can someone give me some light here, smile.
> thanks in advance all.
> ~ mark ~
>
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