On 10/12/2015 8:20 AM, Peter Berlau wrote:
After the issue I just ran into, I have a hard time recommending Samsung laptops toHi Sven, You are right, normally I prefer fair companies. That is the "main-thing" I leave apple-computers and go back to Debian. I switched in 2009 to apple, because I needed some music software and some easy to handle Web-Design-Tool. Now, after I installed Debian for my women and looked what happened new in Debian I found, all software I needed except "band-in-abox" is available under Debian. That was, for me, so great i update all my computers to Debian. powerbook ( 2004 ) make some minor problems, all other ( iMac 2010 and Intel-PC ) works fine "out of the box"... Is Samsung good for Debian ( jessie, stable ) ?
any one.Apparently there are several models of Samsung laptops where hitting 'F2' to get into the bios, then turning off UEFI leads to a situation where you can't get back into the
BIOS again. =-OThe support page for the model I was working on did not have an update for the BIOS.
Installing Windows 8 on a different hard drive and looking for the option there to get
into the bios didn't work either since UEFI was turned off.Some models have a software updater that will get bios updates, but not for the
model I was working on. Eventually found my way to this thread.... http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/samsung-laptops-roll-back-bios-updates.696197/A couple times through the instructions to see how the earlier link works that gives you the name you need to substitute in the later link that actually downloads the BIOS update.
Then was able to flash the bios and get back into [t to turn UEFI back on. What a PITA. :-(Would also avoid the models of Toshiba laptops that are designed in a way that the keyboard can
not be easily replaced without replacing the whole palm rest. http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/161849099488?ul_noapp=true&chn=ps&lpid=82Personally I like Lenovo, lean a little toward the Thinkpads over the other models.
Later, Seeker