<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by fparker1:
floppy drives are so 90's. i have an extra battery in the bay. i usually hybernate the beast just for such events, but i didnt this time.
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Set a boot password. It will stop and ask for the password near the end of the POST, before it tries to boot the OS; you can safely turn it back off at that point.
--Laird