General :: Resetting A BIOS Password On A Laptop?

Oct 5, 2010

I bought a ChemBook laptop which I have installed Ubuntu Linux on. It has an AMI BIOS. There is a password on the BIOS so I can not change its configuration. The laptop does not have a 3.5inch floppy. How do I reset or remove the BIOS password so I can access it and make my own changes and set up my own password?

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Jan 26, 2011

Is there a way to crack the windows Administrator password in Linux (using the SAM file) WITHOUT resetting it?

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Nov 11, 2009

Owned linux laptop (running UBUNTU) for 1.5 yrs. Love it. No problems... until:

1. I changed my password, via System - Admin - User & Groups - Properties. (I just typed 2 characters on the end of the old User Password and the Confirmation password and OK'd it all.
2. Shut down laptop. Upon restarting it (only minutes later), neither the new pw or the old one worked.
3. Googled for help on another machine. Booted linux laptop up in recovery mode and used the passwd <?> command to reset pw (back to the original one!).
4. Shut down. Started laptop up again... forever more firefox runs like a dog. Normally (90% of the time) it times out before reaching a page, though it is trying to transfer the data.

Let's be clear about this. It was fine. The very next time I used firefox - minutes after the password debarcle, it was cac, and has remained cac ever since.

I've been whizzing around on firefox for over a year without any issues. There have been no changes to the router. My microsoft laptop has no issue with the internet so it cant be router or telco related. Though I did reset the router (power and phone line) just to be sure. It didn't help.

I clear the private data (Tools menu) in firefox regularly (daily-ish). That is the only housekeeping I do on this machine. (It only gets used for mail, internet and the odd simple OpenOffice document). There is stacks of space left (70 Gig). I'm not sure how to check memory.

Googled for help and tried some command to purge temp files. That didn't help.

I love my linux laptop, but currently I'm having to resort back to my windows one.

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test1 has read only access.
test2 has read/write access.

When I initially connected to the samba share through test1 user through Nautilus file browser I clicked on remember password.

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How to get the password window back to fill test2 username and password.?

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When I go to single user mode for resetting root password, It ask root pawssword for login.The message displayed on prompt is "Give root password for login.On the boot prompt, I select kernel and press 'e' and after one space type 1 for single User mode and then press 'b' for booting.It shows message entering in single user mode but ask root password. Even I tried into rescue mode, but I couldn't ser root password.In rescue mode on prompt, It shows rescue login: I typed root, But when typed 'passwd' foe resetting root pawssword,It shows message unknown user and not authetication.

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Make: Motorola

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I know Ubuntu can be installed from a USB thumb drive but I have a unique problem. My CD drive in my laptop doesn't work any longer and I have no way to replace it. I know I can place Ubuntu on the flash drive but the bios in my laptop does not allow booting from USB and not ROM update for the laptop. So my question is, since this laptop does have Win7 on it, I can partition the drive to make room for a dual boot, but how do I get Linux on the new partition with out a CD Drive or bootable usb?

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So, I jaibroke my iPod touch and have OpenSSH and I can ssh into my iPod, but I cannot ssh back into my Laptop??

I did

Code:
$ echo '192.168.*.*' >> /etc/hosts.allow ##I googled and it said to do this
$ echo 'sshd: 192.168.*.*' >> /etc/hosts.allow
I also uncommented these lines in /etc/ssh/sshd_config:

[Code]....

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Jan 18, 2010

I recently decided to give linux a try on my personal machine. I work on a unix machine from time to time at work but am pretty much a novice with what I am doing on this laptop. I am running Ubuntu 9.10, I was trying to change the root password on my laptop but ran into the following:

charles@charles-laptop:~$ whoami
charles
charles@charles-laptop:~$ sudo password root

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/boot: 1 GB
below two on one logical volume:
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/: rest ~ 440 GBI installed Oracle Enterprise Linux on the external HDD.

Did not install the Grub bootloader as I don't really want a startup boot option. The way I was planning to make it work was: When USB HDD connected and laptop powered up, it'll boot to the Oracle Linux. When the USB drive is not connected and laptop powered up, it'll boot to Vista. When I boot with the USB HDD connected, nothing happens. I get a blank screen with a blinking cursor. The USB HDD light comes on though. Is the above plan possible, or do I have to have a Boot loader installed?

If I have to have a boot loader installed, how can I just install the bootloader and not have to reinstall Linux on the HDD. The Linux drive is currently empty, so I'm open to any good suggestions to partitioning it. I want to keep a small amount of NTFS space on that drive to store some windows files and documents that I can carry around. The rest 450 GB is open for Linux. And I Plan to install Oracle Database and Apps on Linux (which takes about 350 GB of space).

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