Installing Linux over Windows without BIOS access

Jurjen Bokma

June 2008


This was a fun one: we have a laptop with an unknown BIOS password, and we want to return it with the password still set, so erasing the BIOS is not an option. However, we do have Administrator access to the Windows running on the laptop, so in principle, adding another OS is possible. Turns out it is...

  1. Visit Mr. Herbert's page on this subject, and read it.