On 15/02/13 17:40, Alan Pope wrote:
On 15/02/13 17:31, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
Thanks for all that, Alan. So, concretely, let's take for instance the
Compaq machine which I successfully converted from Windows 8 to Ubuntu
12.10 using a USB stick. Given that F2 no longer works, and that the
Windows 8 machinery for getting into UEFI us no longer there, how in
fact would I get into UEFI on that machine if for some reason I needed
to? The answer is, install Boot-Repair from repositories:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
F2 isn't a universal BIOS hot-key. It may be some other key, often F10
on Compaq machines.
Cheers,
Quite right, Alan, it's easy if you know it's F10, and just hold it down
during start-up. This is the same Compaq CQ58 I bought with Windows 8,
then installed Ubuntu via a USB stick a couple of months back, then had
some trouble installing a wireless driver just a couple of weeks ago.
It's a perfectly normal BIOS facility, once you know how to get into it.
But of course it isn't me who is up the creek without a paddle, it's my
friend in Denmark, and I have emailed various extracts from this thread
to her and suggested she join the list, I know Denmark isn't in the UK,
but this would be the best place for her to find answers to her problem,
wouldn't it.
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