On 15/02/13 18:47, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
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.
Just for the record, I didn't know it was F10. I googled it.
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/a/biosaccess_pc.htm
Cheers,
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