<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:14px;color:#909090" dir="auto">Sent from my Galaxy</div></div><div dir="auto">Hi Dick,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">As far as I can tell, the only keys that work in this context are Esc and f12. The latter merely goes to some completely Windows oriented trouble shooting options that are not relevant at all as far as I can see.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The former (Esc) looks more promising and has a complex set of menus, one of which (advanced) has an option to "add a boot option", but selecting this leads to a screen where you can give a name to a new boot option, then specify a "path" for it and finally "Create" it. However, the path option simply gives you the following option:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">- Look in: WD PC SN560 SDDPNQE-1T00-1102</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It actually gives this same option three times in a drop-down.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Under the "Look in" section, there is a "Full path" section that lists:</div><div dir="auto">- <DIR>EFI</div><div dir="auto">- <DIR>System Volume Information</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Selecting different versions of the same thing from the dropdown under "Look in" gives different list items against "Full path". The list above goes with the first one. The second one lists:</div><div dir="auto">- <DIR>$Extend</div><div dir="auto">- <DIR>Recovery</div><div dir="auto">- <DIR>System Volume Information </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The third and final version displays the list:</div><div dir="auto">- <DIR> System Volume Information </div><div dir="auto">- <DIR> AsusWinRE</div><div dir="auto">- <DIR> AsusWinREBackup</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Selecting any if these DIR entries opens it, but nothing looks useful for the purpose of altering the boot order (and I don't think you'd thank me for going through all the entries here).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I can't guarantee that I've inspected every option, but I must have covered most of them - and all the ones that looked even vaguely like they were might be useful.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Sorry for the long post.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Peter</div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Dick Bain <dick.bain@gmail.com> </div><div>Date: 06/05/2025 17:38 (GMT+00:00) </div><div>To: South Wales Linux User Group <swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk> </div><div>Cc: Peter Bradley <peredur.net@gmail.com> </div><div>Subject: Re: [Swlug] Install Linux on ASUS Vivobook </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Generally hitting one of the f keys gets a boot menu F8 to F12 might work.</p><p dir="ltr">Best of luck</p><p dir="ltr">Dick </p><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">free/libre/open, software for the people by the people<br><a href="http://www.swlug.org">www.swlug.org</a> is a good place to go ;-)</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Tue, 6 May 2025, 17:25 Peter Bradley via Swlug, <<a rel="noreferrer" href="mailto:swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk">swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">I have a reasonably new ASUS Vivobook with Windows 11 installed. I would <br>
really like to get rid of Windows 11 and install a Linux distribution <br>
instead.<br>
<br>
I've downloaded Ubuntu onto a memory stick, but can't get any further <br>
because I can't find any way to alter the boot order. The BIOS screen <br>
appears when I repeatedly hit Esc on startup, but as far as I can see <br>
there is no option to allow the machine to look for a USB stick before <br>
it boots from the hard drive. Searching the internet came up with any <br>
number of suggestions, but none of them works for me as the options they <br>
mention don't appear on my BIOS screen.<br>
<br>
Does anyone know where I can find the option to boot from USB, or any <br>
other way of getting Linux installed on this machine?<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance<br>
<br>
Peter<br>
<br>
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