Hi Tom Thanks for answering. It is the Escape key. It does the same thing though. Just shows a menu of Windows boot manager and disabled. No other option is shown.
Neil On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 12:29 PM Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > I had the pleasure with this laptop in distant past. I hope that I remember > things correctly. > > 1. The boot menu is accessible through a key not advertised on the screen > at boot time. Not sure how I found it, probably tried Fx, Del, Enter, Esc > key. > 2. It wouldn't boot from media not signed by MS. At the time, eons ago, > openSuSE was correctly signed and booted. I had less luck with other > distros back then. > 3. Booting from external USB DVD drive worked too. I seems to think that it > was easier as it would boot just by having it connected with suitable, > signed DVD inserted. > > I sincerely hope that I am not making this up, after 4-ish years. > > Tomas > > > > On Mon, Dec 2, 2019, 14:11 Russell Senior <russ...@personaltelco.net> > wrote: > > > What is the failing behavior? Does anything show up on the screen, any > > messages? > > > > Fwiw, I had trouble with a particular brand of USB drive (the no-name > > bamboo-cased $5 8GB drives available from MultCoLib), but switching to > > random swag from OSCON worked. Even in the failing case, I got some > > messages though. I dd'd the image to the usb drive's block device (CHECK > > CAREFULLY). > > > > On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 8:56 AM OR Linux Jobs <oregonlinuxj...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hello PLUG Happy Holidays > > > > > > This question is for the clinic staff > > > I have a laptop that I would like to get Clear Linux OS on, and I've > been > > > unable to do that by booting from USB. Does the clinic offer help with > > > installing a different way? i'm imagining that you would be able to > open > > up > > > my laptop and get the drives out > > > > > > Extra details. TL;DR > > > > > > The laptop is ASUS Zenbook UX303L > > > I did update the BIOS to see if it could make a difference. It did not. > > > Yes, I know, you have to disable secure boot and enable CSM. > > > It did not make any difference. > > > There is no option to boot from USB offered, even though I have a > > bootable > > > SD card in the card reader, with Clear Linux OS Live Desktop image on > it > > > created by Rufus. > > > nVidia GeForce video card is installed, but, I do not care if it > unused. > > it > > > was unused under Win 8.1 anyway. > > > > > > Sincerely > > > Neil Raja > > > e-mail oregonlinuxj...@gmail.com > > > Twitter linuxoregon > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PLUG mailing list > > > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
