Boot your ThinkPad and continuously press the blue “Access IBM” button when you see the onscreen message “To interrupt normal startup, press the blue Access IBM button.” Doing so enters BIOS on ThinkPad models beginning with “G4…,” “R4…,” “R5…,” “T4…” and “X4…”

How to Set Up a ThinkPad

1. Turn your ThinkPad bottom-side up and insert the battery into the battery slot.
2. Connect the AC power adapter to the power jack on your computer, and then plug the power cord into an electrical outlet.
3. Press the “Power” button to turn on your computer.

Power On. To power on, press the Power button located on the right edge of the laptop.

To use the Boot Menu program, complete the following steps:

1. Turn off the server.
2. Restart the server.
3. When the prompt Select Boot Device is displayed, press F12 .
4. Use the Up arrow and Down arrow keys to select an item from the Boot Selection Menu and press Enter.

Press F12 or (Fn+F12) rapidly and repeatedly at the Lenovo logo during bootup to open Windows Boot Manager. Select boot device in the list.

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How to Set IBM Laptop Boot from CD/DVD via IBM BIOS SETUP

1. Turn on your IBM computer, when IBM system starts.
2. In the System Configuration and Boot Management screen, use up/down key to highlight Boot Manager option, press Enter.
3. On the Boot Manager screen: use up/down key to highlight Change Boot Order.

It boots off this instead next time the pc is turned on saving time, but if you lose that file windows will just start normally, slower. I’ve seen ram drives that use PCI and a battery to store information so when the PC is shut down it doesn’t lose its data.

Starting in safe mode

1. Stop Real-time Monitoring.
2. Edit the realtime.properties file to include the following line: Safe/ Mode=true.
3. On the application server, restart Real-time Monitoring.

Configuring boot device order

1. device type > bus type > adapter > devices attached to the adapter.
2. By selecting List All Devices from the Select Device Type menu or the Select Media Type menu, you can view all the potentially bootable devices at one time.

This is the quickest way of viewing the bootlist but is only a valid command on systems running AIX 4.2 and higher. Another way to access the system’s built in diagnostics is by using the ‘diag’ command. Select ‘Task Selection’, then select ‘Display or Change Bootlist’.

Description. The bosboot command creates the boot image that interfaces with the machine boot ROS (Read-Only Storage) EPROM (Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory). The bosboot command creates a boot file (boot image) from a RAM (Random Access Memory) disk file system and a kernel.

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IBM has a series of high performance microprocessors called POWER followed by a number designating generation, i.e. POWER1, POWER2, POWER3 and so forth up to the latest POWER10. They have also been used in data storage devices by IBM and by other server manufacturers like Bull and Hitachi.