Re: Building computer
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Catherine Gramze <rhiamom@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 26, 2013, at 10:50 PM, Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'd call it obscure rather than magical.
> Any sufficiently obscure technique is indistinguishable from magic - (my
> apologies to Arthur C. Clark).
:)
> On my recent ill-fated Gateway it took spamming the delete key during boot,
> and then once the login screen appeared clicking on "update and restart"
> while holding the shift key. As any same person would do, I immediately
> altered the boot options once in BIOS so the message to hit delete or F12
> for the boot menu would appear. Of course, the boot menu never recognized
> the Linux installation. And only recognized the CD sometimes.
If the manufacturers were sane, they'd use the same keys for accessing
the UEFI firmware and boot manager; and display a reminder of those
keys at boot...
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