On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 01:59:26PM -0600, o1bigtenor wrote: > Greetings > > Laptop my wife has been using a her computer is starting to have > occasional graphics issues. Its an all in one mobo but its also almost > 7 years old so looked for a replacement. > > BestBuy had some systems on sale for after Christmas so ordered an Asus > desktop. > > AMD mobo 6 GB of ram, built in wifi w DVD RW all for can $360 inc shipping. > > Now comes the kicker. Wanted to set the uefi bios to boot from Cd-rom > so that I could use gparted to give myself some disc room to enable a > dual boot system (Debian testing being the flavor du jour). It will > NOT boot onto the cd-rom it says that an illegal modification has been > made to the bios and the next boot option must be chosen. > > (There was zero material with this system. It boots and all but there > is nothing with it. Even the OS key is burned into the bios. There > isn't even a system sticker any more!!) > > Any suggestions on how to get this system to boot onto the cd-rom > short of pulling the hard drive and replacing it?
Disable secureboot in the "BIOS". -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
