Toshiba laptop

[danip]

I just received a toshiba satellite A45-s151 and i want to put linux on it but i cant figure out how to get into the bios. anyone know how?

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

What keys did you try?

Some common ones are F2, F10, and Delete. I'm sure others may have run across this, too.

[Icarus]

Looks like it's the F2 key, if not hold the Esc key

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_dtlView.jsp?soid=627009&ref=AI&ct=SB&moid=626343&IL=EN&QS=bios&OS=&CN=10&BV_SessionID=@@@@0815959952.1085655691@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccdadclijhdddecgfkceghdgngdgli.0&ProductMenu_1=Satellite&ProductMenu_2=A45-S151%7c626343&ST=1&SortOrder=LT_WEIGHT&awhit=3

[delete]

go to the manufacture website and go to the support section, it should tell you F8, F2, F5 and DELETE are some common bios keys

[mdwatts]

Some older Toshiba laptops used a executable file you copied to a Win/Dos bootdisk in order to access and modify the bios.

I seem to remember 'tsetup.exe' or 'tssetup.exe' back when I had a Toshiba Tecra 500CDT.