Laptops with BIOS rigged only for Windows Vista (Gateway PCS & others) A friend of mine who knows very little about Linux discovered his laptop Gateway Wifi computer, his source to the internet, is has a BIOS program rigged so it's nearly impossible to install another operating system.
I could only recommend that he finds some kind of BIOS flash program or tweak online or pull out and put back the CMOS battery. I've never owned a laptop with a Wifi in my entire life, but was planning to buy one real soon. He raised some very important questions about a situation that any rational person wants to avoid. I'm sorry that I don't know the make and model and specs of his Gateway laptop. I'm linking this post to an email which is entirely up to him to read and volunteer any other information. So my questions are as follows: What can he do to modify the BIOS firmware so he can install either some better version of Windows or Ubuntu or some other distribution if anything? What are some better laptop shopping recommendations? Personally, I'd prefer a laptop with at least 2 hard dirves, where I wipe the Vista clean like the baby's dirty diaper that it is and clean install Ubuntu & a modified Windows XP, or dual boot the single hard drive with Ubuntu & a modified Windows XP. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
