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<DIV>Hello</DIV>
<DIV>I have got the problem sorted now and its working smoothly all the time
with more time to enter the Legacy BIOS in both O.S.</DIV>
<DIV>I have to thank Barry Titterton for his reply and suggesting it may be
a Fast Boot problem. I found the answer in the Advanced BIOS Features (
American Megatrends) under Fast Boot or similar and changed this to Disabled and
wall went well.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I had looked on the internet and it seemed a common problem even with a
boot loader but many suggestions made had not worked for other users or were
complicated. This one was simple so I hope it may help others.</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks Barry</DIV>
<DIV>Alan</DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=titterton.barry@gmail.com
href="mailto:titterton.barry@gmail.com">Barry Titterton</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=a.pearsonx@zen.co.uk
href="mailto:a.pearsonx@zen.co.uk">A Pearson</A> ; <A
title=durham@mailman.lug.org.uk href="mailto:durham@mailman.lug.org.uk">Durham
Linux User Group mailing list</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 05, 2017 12:01
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Durham] MINT &
BIOS</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>On 04/12/17 21:10, A Pearson wrote:<BR>> Barry<BR>>
Thanks but I am sure the keyboard is OK. Its working everywhere else. <BR>>
I am quick off the mark as there is little time to act when the enter<BR>>
screen shows. I have had some success today. I disconnected the Linux<BR>>
drive and managed to access the Windows drive and also get into the<BR>>
BIOS. so there does no seem to be any malfunction there as it operates<BR>>
normally so I made a quick backup with Acronis. I have not reconnected<BR>>
the Linux drive at this point in case someone has an answer. I did<BR>>
change the mouse though because at first it was not entering my
password<BR>> but after a reboot it was OK except when I tried to enter
Acronis where<BR>> it was only giving a vertical line movement. Strange one
but the other<BR>> mouse did the trick<BR>> <BR>> Thanks
again<BR>> Alan<BR>> <BR><BR><BR>Hi Alan,<BR><BR>I have done a little
research and you are not alone with being unable to<BR>access BIOS after
installing/updating Linux. I have a possible cause of<BR>your problem. It
stems from you installing the OS on to each drive<BR>separately. I think the
Windows drive is expecting a legacy BIOS<BR>installation, while the Linux
drive is expecting a UEFI installation.<BR>UEFI has a Fast Boot option which
ignores the DEL key (which you need to<BR>get in to the BIOS
settings).<BR><BR>This web page may give you some clues:-<BR><BR><A
href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/918080/installed-ubuntu-in-bios-mode-cant-access-bios-anymore">https://askubuntu.com/questions/918080/installed-ubuntu-in-bios-mode-cant-access-bios-anymore</A><BR><BR>My
knowledge of UEFI is very limited so I do not know how you can fix<BR>your
problem. I hope other more knowledgeable members of this mailing<BR>list may
be able to help.<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR>Barry T<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>