This is something many of us have done 1000 times, except still, with some maufacturers, it's not straight forward.
I was working on a laptop, truing to get into the BIOS or boot menu to reinstall Linux Mint. I must have rebooted it a dozen fucking times before I got into the BIOS. Anyone else get irriated about this shit sometimes?
Usually it's pretty easy, sometimes when you reboot, the spash screen at post is quick but it will still tell you, hit F12 for BIOS, or Delete. Othertimes, and in this case it was a quick flash "ASUS" and it doesn't tell you what to hit and if your not fast enough, it moves to startup.
So I reboot and I'm hitting F12 and then Delete, nope, and can't CTRL ALT Delete now so there is the desktop. Okay reboot, try it again, nope, too slow I guess, or I'm hitting the wrong one first. Desktop again...welll at least the boot time is fast on this machine (way faster than my last desktop, that's another story..).
At one point I was trying F2 as well, just to see if I can get to the Boot Menu but that didn't seem to work either.
Alright I better Google to see exactly what key I need to press. It could be Del, F12, F2, Google even says sometimes it's Esc. It would be nice if everyone could just agree on one fucking key.
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Anyways it's not even a big issue, it's just another thing you have to Google that you really shouldn't have to, just tell me what key it is at the spash screen and I would have it first try. Maybe I can be a bit dumb, unprepared or rushed but I've installed Windows and Linux probably 1000 times by now. I really shouldn't have to be rebooting and hitting random keys a dozen times before I can get a boot menu or BIOS.
/end rant
I was working on a laptop, truing to get into the BIOS or boot menu to reinstall Linux Mint. I must have rebooted it a dozen fucking times before I got into the BIOS. Anyone else get irriated about this shit sometimes?
Usually it's pretty easy, sometimes when you reboot, the spash screen at post is quick but it will still tell you, hit F12 for BIOS, or Delete. Othertimes, and in this case it was a quick flash "ASUS" and it doesn't tell you what to hit and if your not fast enough, it moves to startup.
So I reboot and I'm hitting F12 and then Delete, nope, and can't CTRL ALT Delete now so there is the desktop. Okay reboot, try it again, nope, too slow I guess, or I'm hitting the wrong one first. Desktop again...welll at least the boot time is fast on this machine (way faster than my last desktop, that's another story..).
At one point I was trying F2 as well, just to see if I can get to the Boot Menu but that didn't seem to work either.
Alright I better Google to see exactly what key I need to press. It could be Del, F12, F2, Google even says sometimes it's Esc. It would be nice if everyone could just agree on one fucking key.
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Anyways it's not even a big issue, it's just another thing you have to Google that you really shouldn't have to, just tell me what key it is at the spash screen and I would have it first try. Maybe I can be a bit dumb, unprepared or rushed but I've installed Windows and Linux probably 1000 times by now. I really shouldn't have to be rebooting and hitting random keys a dozen times before I can get a boot menu or BIOS.
/end rant