Re: No F Key Boot Menu

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The delete key can get you into bios on some systems too.

On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 15:59:41
> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: No F Key Boot Menu
>
> Often the escape key can be used to bring up a boot menu. That being
> said, there's usually an option in bios to set more than 1 boot drive,
> such that if the 1st 1 doesn't contain bootable media, it'll move onto
> the 2nd 1, etc.
>
> On 8/5/19, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > My bios:
> > Board: EVGA INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD 131-HE-E995 1.0
> > UEFI: American Megatrends Inc. 2.08 06/28/2019
> > does not seem to have a function whereby you can select a device to boot
> > from using one of the function keys. Instead, one must physically go into
> > the bios and change boot order, if, for example, you wish to boot from a
> > flash drive to install an OS. And if that flash drive is subsequently
> > removed, the system will not boot, until you go into the bios and change the
> > boot order, again.
> > My question: is this normal bios behavior these days, or is something wrong
> > in my particular implementation. I turned off the secure boot function in
> > there. Would turning that on fix this? What else might I look for in the
> > bios to either (a) allow for falling back on different devices should one be
> > removed or (b) to allow the function key boot menu found in previous bios
> > implementations.
> >
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