On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Catherine Gramze <rhia...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sep 26, 2013, at 10:50 PM, Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'd call it obscure rather than magical. > Any sufficiently obscure technique is indistinguishable from magic - (my > apologies to Arthur C. Clark). :) > On my recent ill-fated Gateway it took spamming the delete key during boot, > and then once the login screen appeared clicking on "update and restart" > while holding the shift key. As any same person would do, I immediately > altered the boot options once in BIOS so the message to hit delete or F12 > for the boot menu would appear. Of course, the boot menu never recognized > the Linux installation. And only recognized the CD sometimes. If the manufacturers were sane, they'd use the same keys for accessing the UEFI firmware and boot manager; and display a reminder of those keys at boot... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=sy9pdejaccovx_+wpcem4sxfcw8cec07b9uo5g85sa...@mail.gmail.com
