"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> ____/ jfg on Friday 07 December 2007 17:31 : \____
>
>> Boy, where to start with this one. I downloaded and burnt a copy of
>> Berry
>> Linux Live CD. I booted my Toshiba Satellite laptop with the live cd for
>> fun and it booted up to a screen with multiple unknown to me boot
>> options.
>> I typed 'halt' since it was the one I recognized and the machine went
>> down
>> but now refuses to boot. When I boot I get no BIOS, no screen, just the
>> computer trying to boot from the cd. I put the Berry cd back in and
>> still
>> nothing. It's almost as if the live cd has locked my machine. I held
>> the
>> on/off button down for 5 seconds and the machine turned off. Then tried
>> to
>> boot and once again nothing. I changed hard drives, nothing. I tried to
>> boot with a different cd, nothing. Is is possible that the live cd or
>> something that I've done has corrupted the BIOS?
>>
>> If anyone has any suggestions as to what I might try, please let me know.
>> Thanks, group. JG
>
> Bery is a Fedora derivative and your BIOS can't be overwritten. You post
> this
> to an advocacy newsgroup rather than a technical one, so I tend to think
> this
> is a scare tactic. Why post this question /here/?
>
> Gary on AT&T?
>
> --
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>
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I really didn't mean to scare anyone. I've booted with Berry before with no
problems. It turned out that after removing and reseating the cd-rom the
problem disappeared. Whew! I thought I had done something really bad. I
still don't know what happened. JG, not Gary.
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