From an email to Travis Geiselbrecht, ex-Be employee:
Hi Travis,
My Compaq CE1000 / Clipper arrived yesterday, and I've been having fun
playing around with it. I was wondering if you can recall the key combo
to get into the bios on these things so I can try enabling the CF slot
as primary boot device. On the IA-1 evidently you have to clear the bios
then hold the "Compaq" key while booting, but this didn't work on the
CE1000.
Any hints on what you can actually do with BeIA 1.0 would also be
useful, since (despite it being new) no manuals came with it. All I have
is a blank screen with a movable mouse cursur, and can't find any menus
at all. Although I did manage to get into the reflash utility once.
Rob
Reply, via IRC:
<geist> yes, the answer is 'I dont know' and 'not much'
<haiqu> Oh, ok. Thanks.
<geist> so it actually has beia on it?
<geist> where did you get it from?
<haiqu> Yup. From a guy in the US.
<geist> so it just boots into some ui?
<haiqu> He sold one on eBay, so I emailed him and asked wherre it came from. He said he could get me one, and did.
<geist> if it has a CF slot, I think it'll try to boot it first
<geist> as far as I remember, there is no bios screen
<haiqu> It comes up with Compaq logo, then cursor, then Be logo and BeIA 1.0 identifier, then mouse cursor.
<haiqu> Boot from the CF ? Cool, I'll do that then.
<haiqu> It also has a smartcard slot.
<geist> I guess, but that was not the same clipper
<geist> different design than I remember I guess
<geist> no smartcard on the one I remember
<haiqu> It's a CE1000 according to the bottom plate. It's blue.
<geist> probably why beia doesn't work, that build was probably not for that particular hardware
<haiqu> Uh, right. Wonder how it got on there then? It's brand new.
Hope this data proves useful.
haiqu
