On 13 Mar 2013, at 14:51, Chris Murphy wrote:
By the way, in this brave new fast boot world, how is one expected
to get to the BIOS or firmware set-up programs?
Firmware specific. F1 and F2 are very common. HP and some Toshibas
are Esc.
My question was more timing than keystroke -- whatever the keystroke,
I don't think I can hit it in the 1 second boot scenario.
On 13 Mar 2013, at 13:39, Matthew Garrett wrote:
By the way, in this brave new fast boot world, how is one
expected to get to the BIOS or firmware set-up programs?
Use UI that sets an EFI variable and then reboot.
If I understand this correctly, I have to log into a working system
in order to set a flag in the firmware that will allow me to reboot
into the firmware set-up program.
I'm not yet sold on having to boot into a working system in order to
get back to the firmware or boot menu on a reboot. Beyond the
annoyance of having to boot something I don't want in order to get
where I want to go, the process seems fragile to me.
Perhaps with age comes patience -- or orneriness, I'm not quite sure
-- but I'm inclined to think that accepting the addition of 1-2
seconds to boot time in order to have available a power-on key-hold
route to a boot menu and firmware set-up program is not a
particularly bad trade-off.
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Mike
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