On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 10:17 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > I have tried Esc, Fn 1-12 and Del. In each case I have selected a reboot, > then hit the selected key, holding it down throughout the reboot process. > None of them gave me the required screen - all with just the choice between > the existing FC and Rescue. > > I'm beginning to think that I will have to take out the hard drive, mount it > in a caddy, then hope that Windows disk management tools will see it and > allow me to remove everything. Hopefully at that point I'll be able to > reinstall and boot from DVD. Whether I'll be able to set UEFI off > permanently is anybody's guess.
This is *definitely* not necessary. The BIOS runs before the hard disk is even read, so there has to be a way to catch it. As far as I can tell you haven't so far mentioned what the make and model of your laptop is, so everyone is just guessing. You need to read the docs for your specific machine to see what the magic key is. In fact strictly speaking you just need the make and model of the BIOS itself. If you can't find it, try running 'biosdecode' from the dmidecode package. That will at least tell you the OEM (i.e. the BIOS manufacturer). poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
