T42 Recovery process stuck in loop

I ran the 7 + 1 disc recovery process for my Thinkpad T42P. I selelct restore factory defaults and tt runs all of the discs and says operation is completed succesfully and I should reboot. I switch the bios boot order to defaults. But then it just keeps retrunging me to the Rescue and Recovery screen and will never start the OS. Please help! How can I get out of this loop? ?

zac, welcome to the forum,
please try the following;
shut the system down by pressing the power button for 5 seconds, or untill the system shuts down.
Start the system as you normally would and press the blue Access IBM button when you see the message "To interrupt boot..."
When R&R has loaded select to restore the system and then factory restore.
This should work.
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