<div dir="ltr">I have been doing some digging, and I realized my problem may not be directly related to UEFI. It seems that some newer laptops do not have the option to boot from anything except the hard drive, even in legacy mode. Even in legacy mode, the BIOS doesn't seem to have an option to boot from external CD/DVD or USB. I'll keep playing with it, I'll let you know if I find anything.<div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Allen Krell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:allen.krell@gmail.com" target="_blank">allen.krell@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I just got in my Dell Inspiron, and this is my first experience dealing with windows 8.1 machines and newest laptops. <div><br></div><div>Already I noticed one thing, a windows 8.1 restart isn't really a complete restart. If you want to get to BIOS/UEFI, you have to power down. F2 doesn't respond on restart.</div><div><br></div><div>Now, I am trying to get up to speed on Legacy Boot/UEFI. I have a basic understanding on how UEFI works, but I am not clear on which distributions support it. Does anyone have a one paragraph explanation or a good link on the best way to proceed to get a dual boot machine? </div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Allen </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></font></span></div>
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