Re: Dell BIOS Changes

2020-01-29 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-29, Curt wrote: > On 2020-01-28, J. D. Leach wrote: >> To Whom it May Concern, >> >> Have a Dell Inspiron 3668 desktop with the latest Dell firmware >> (1.12.2). This update, and numerous of the preceding ones, do not allow >> ANY type of loading of Debian (or any othe Linux flavor)

Re: Dell BIOS Changes

2020-01-29 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-28, J. D. Leach wrote: > To Whom it May Concern, > > Have a Dell Inspiron 3668 desktop with the latest Dell firmware > (1.12.2). This update, and numerous of the preceding ones, do not allow > ANY type of loading of Debian (or any othe Linux flavor) onto the PC. In That's astounding

Re: Dell BIOS Changes

2020-01-28 Thread Ralph Katz
On 1/27/20 10:13 PM, J. D. Leach wrote: > To Whom it May Concern, > > Have a Dell Inspiron 3668 desktop with the latest Dell firmware > (1.12.2). This update, and numerous of the preceding ones, do not allow > ANY type of loading of Debian (or any othe Linux flavor) onto the PC. In > the BIOS conf

Re: Dell BIOS Changes

2020-01-28 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 11:29 AM Nate Bargmann wrote: > The foregoing is why I really want to see ARM evolve to be the basis of > decent workstation performance. Given the machinations being done to > commodity hardware something more open with Coreboot or uboot is needed. > And in case you are

Re: Dell BIOS Changes

2020-01-28 Thread Nate Bargmann
The foregoing is why I really want to see ARM evolve to be the basis of decent workstation performance. Given the machinations being done to commodity hardware something more open with Coreboot or uboot is needed. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible world

Re: Dell BIOS Changes

2020-01-28 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 08:43:07AM -0700, ghe wrote: > On 1/27/20 10:13 PM, J. D. Leach wrote: > > > I suspect Microsoft is back to trying to squelch the use of software > > other than what it approves of. > > "Sells" you mean... > > I bought a Dell laptop a couple years ago, and it had a 'BIOS'

Re: Dell BIOS Changes

2020-01-28 Thread ghe
On 1/27/20 10:13 PM, J. D. Leach wrote: > I suspect Microsoft is back to trying to squelch the use of software > other than what it approves of. "Sells" you mean... I bought a Dell laptop a couple years ago, and it had a 'BIOS' like you describe. But there was an option in the several pages of B

Re: Dell BIOS Changes

2020-01-28 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-01-28 at 03:23, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > On 28.01.2020 10:13, J. D. Leach wrote: > >> To Whom it May Concern, >> >> Have a Dell Inspiron 3668 desktop with the latest Dell firmware >> (1.12.2). This update, and numerous of the preceding ones, do not >> allow ANY type of loading of De

Re: Dell BIOS Changes

2020-01-28 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 28.01.2020 10:13, J. D. Leach wrote: > To Whom it May Concern, > > Have a Dell Inspiron 3668 desktop with the latest Dell firmware > (1.12.2). This update, and numerous of the preceding ones, do not > allow ANY type of loading of Debian (or any othe Linux flavor) onto > the PC. In the BIOS confi

Re: Dell BIOS Changes

2020-01-27 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 28.01.2020 10:13, J. D. Leach wrote: > To Whom it May Concern, > > Have a Dell Inspiron 3668 desktop with the latest Dell firmware > (1.12.2). This update, and numerous of the preceding ones, do not > allow ANY type of loading of Debian (or any othe Linux flavor) onto > the PC. In the BIOS confi

Re: Dell BIOS Changes

2020-01-27 Thread deloptes
J. D. Leach wrote: > Have a Dell Inspiron 3668 desktop with the latest Dell firmware > (1.12.2). This update, and numerous of the preceding ones, do not allow > ANY type of loading of Debian (or any othe Linux flavor) onto the PC. In > the BIOS configuration menu, no option is available to boot fr

Dell BIOS Changes

2020-01-27 Thread J. D. Leach
To Whom it May Concern, Have a Dell Inspiron 3668 desktop with the latest Dell firmware (1.12.2). This update, and numerous of the preceding ones, do not allow ANY type of loading of Debian (or any othe Linux flavor) onto the PC. In the BIOS configuration menu, no option is available to boot f