[LUNA] various boot questions/notes

[Allen Krell]

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.



On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Allen Krell <allen.krell at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just got in my Dell Inspiron, and this is my first experience dealing
> with windows 8.1 machines and newest laptops.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
>
>
> Allen
>
>
>
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