[Lincoln LUG] Booting from USB on a Dell XPS 13

[Jon Gibbins.com]

Howdy.

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.

Hopefully this will help, let me know how you get on.

Jon
On 21 May 2013 21:59, "Dave Briggs" <dave at kindofdigital.com> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> 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!
>
> 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
>
>
> http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/f/4613/t/19501016.aspx
>
> But some of the labels used don't match my machine and I am very nervous
> about BIOS fiddling!
>
> 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!
>
> Anyone know of any really easy to follow instructions, or happy to talk me
> through it?
>
> TIA
>
> Dave
>
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