<p dir="ltr">Howdy.</p>
<p dir="ltr">On a Dell I had my hands on a few weeks back you had to boot into the EFI or whatever they've called it and enable legacy BIOS mode. That should give you the option to call up a good olde fashioned boot menu when the PC boots.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Hopefully this will help, let me know how you get on.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Jon</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 21 May 2013 21:59, "Dave Briggs" <<a href="mailto:dave@kindofdigital.com">dave@kindofdigital.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Hi all<div><br></div><div>My XPS 13 arrived today. Sadly not the 'Sputnik' developer edition with Ubuntu pre-installed (it wasn't available on the UK Dell website), but Windows 8 instead. Had a brief play with W8, and it's the dog everyone says it is!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyway, I've got the latest 64 bit Ubuntu on a USB stick but am struggling to get the machine to boot from the USB. I found some instructions here</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/f/4613/t/19501016.aspx" target="_blank">http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/f/4613/t/19501016.aspx</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>But some of the labels used don't match my machine and I am very nervous about BIOS fiddling!</div><div><br></div><div>I don't want to keep Windows, so none of the issues about dual booting effect me, but equally I don't want to brick my brand new laptop!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyone know of any really easy to follow instructions, or happy to talk me through it?</div><div><br></div><div>TIA</div><div><br>Dave <br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div>Dave Briggs - Director, Kind of Digital Ltd</div>
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