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

[Jon Gibbins.com]

How odd. That sounds more like a duff installer than a laptop issue to me
(although I'm open to being wrong).
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On 21 May 2013 22:31, Dave Briggs <dave at kindofdigital.com> wrote:

> 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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