Does, Work, Some – Lenovo ThinkPad R400 User Manual

Page 212: Brands, After, Installation

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F11

key

does

not

work

on

some

brands

after

installation

After

an

ImageUltra

Builder

deployment

and

installation,

pressing

F11

during

startup

typically

provides

access

to

the

ImageUltra

menu

system,

either

directly

or

indirectly.

However,

you

might

encounter

a

brand

or

line

of

computers

where

pressing

F11

during

startup

has

no

effect

after

an

ImageUltra

Builder

deployment

and

installation.

Such

cases

are

rare,

but

they

do

exist.

You

can

use

either

or

both

of

the

following

methods

to

work

around

this

problem:

Method

1:

Add

an

shortcut

icon

on

the

Windows

desktop

using

the

following

procedure.

1.

Use

Windows

Explorer

or

My

Computer

to

locate

the

BMGR32.EXE

file

located

in

the

\TOOLS\BMGR

folder

of

any

repository.

2.

Copy

the

BMGR32.EXE

file

to

user

partition

of

the

target

computer

that

is

failing.

You

can

place

this

file

anywhere

on

the

user

partition.

3.

Create

shortcut

icon

on

the

desktop

that

contains

the

following

command:

path\bmgr32

/BS

/R

where

path

is

the

path

to

the

folder

containing

the

BMGR32.EXE

file.

The

user

can

use

the

shortcut

icon

to

access

the

ImageUltra

menu

system.

Method

2:

Create

a

recovery

CD

using

the

following

procedure.

1.

Create

a

bootable

DOS

CD.

2.

Use

Windows

Explorer

or

My

Computer

to

locate

the

BMGR.EXE

file

located

in

the

\TOOLS\BMGR

folder

of

any

repository.

3.

Copy

the

BMGR.EXE

file

to

bootable

DOS

CD.

4.

Create

an

AUTOEXEC.BAT

file

(or

modify

an

existing

AUTOEXEC.BAT

file)

to

include

the

following

lines:

path\bmgr

/BS

echo

Remove

this

CD

and

restart

your

computer.

where

path

is

the

path

to

the

folder

containing

the

BMGR.EXE

file.

When

the

computer

is

started

from

this

CD,

the

BMGR.EXE

program

sets

up

the

computer

to

restart

from

the

service

partition

on

the

next

reboot.

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