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

[Dave Briggs]

Hi John

I've just tried that. I disabled secure boot, and enabled legacy.

Rebooted and held down F12 to choose where to boot from and chose my USB
stick. It then came up with an 'Operating System not found' message.

Dave


On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Jon Gibbins.com <email at jongibbins.com>wrote:

> 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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