Toshiba 5100-603 - any problems ?

[Julian H. Stacey]

Vince Hoffman wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > I Wrote:
> > > Toshiba 5100-603 laptop ........
> > Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 02:48:49AM +0200, Julian Stacey wrote:
> > > > I expect I'll have the normal disgusting Toshiba mess: can only
> > > > access BIOS via M$: This box has no internal floppy, just an external
> > > > USB flop, I believe, so more agro there I guess. I might have to,
> > > > for the first time in my life, just squeeze the M$ down to a few
> > > > Gig, & leave minimal M$ excrement in place, at least initially,
> > > > despite normal desire to zap M$ completely off any drive I lay hands on
>  ?
> > > A local user here in London informed me of the following:
> > > http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/download_bios.j
> sp?z
> > > =13&service=UK
> > >
> > > Apparently if you select the 'Traditional' BIOS update download, you don'
> t
> > > need Windows. Updates for the Satellite 5100-603 appear to be available.
> >
> > Thanks, I used that: Yes, you dont need Windows to update the BIOS,
> > I flashed an upgrade that way via floppy.  But I still don't know
> > how to Access the BIOS direct at boot.
> > Maybe you can private mail me the name of your local user in London
> > who presumably uses one under FreeBSD please ?
> 
> I havent tried on the satellite series, but for the
> majority of tosh laptops you can hold escape as soon as you power on till
> it gives an error and says press f1 to enter setup (ie the bios,) (works
> on the tecra 750+ , tecra 8000, 8100, 8200 and portege a100 and another
> portege i forget the model number, so am pretty sure its a universal tosh
> laptop thing.)

Thanks, Just tried that & it said
	"Press [F1] key for default setting.
(It's only got M$ on right now, no 2nd partition for BSD)
I haven't run FIPS yet.

Holding down F12 after power up till the red Toshiba script comes
up give a chance to boot off cdrom.

I've still not got into the BIOS proper though ... if there even is
a BIOS interface. Maybe they only ever had HWsetup.exe.  Ugh !

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