If your normal key sequence to get into the BIOS boot menu doesn't even work, that sounds pretty conclusively like a hardware issue to me. Is it difficult to swap out the keyboard, in this laptop?
On Wed, Dec 21, 2022, 19:24 bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net < bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net> wrote: > Just need to go to a store to pick one up. Yes, I remember using Knoppix > CD'S for checking and sometimes repairing Windows problems, never had to do > that for Linux. > > Once I get a thumb drive, I can try a couple of things, including making a > live disk or two. > > Laptop is only a few years old, so it's not quite a fossil yet. Getting > there though. > > > > Get BlueMail for Android <https://bluemail.me> > On Dec 21, 2022, at 7:11 PM, Jim McGinness <jmc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> For sufficiently old fossils, it might be easier to boot from a live CD, >> if thumb drives aren't laying around already. >> >> Distinguishing between a failed keyboard and a software misconfiguration >> can be helped by seeing the keyboard is not failed under different >> software. Knoppix distributions (at least in the past) had a reputation for >> being very good at autoconfiguring a wide variety of hardware. But if >> System 76 laptops are sufficiently specialized, it's possible no other OS >> will be happy with them. >> >> Should I assume you're already aware of this page? - >> https://support.system76.com/articles/pop-live-disk/ >> >> -- jmcg >> > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >
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