[Swlug] Install Linux on ASUS Vivobook

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Sent from my GalaxyHi Dick,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.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:- Look in: WD PC SN560 SDDPNQE-1T00-1102It actually gives this same option three times in a drop-down.Under the "Look in" section, there is a "Full path" section that lists:- <DIR>EFI- <DIR>System Volume InformationSelecting 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:- <DIR>$Extend- <DIR>Recovery- <DIR>System Volume Information The third and final version displays the list:- <DIR> System Volume Information - <DIR> AsusWinRE- <DIR> AsusWinREBackupSelecting 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).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.Sorry for the long post.Peter
-------- Original message --------From: Dick Bain <dick.bain at gmail.com> Date: 06/05/2025  17:38  (GMT+00:00) To: South Wales Linux User Group <swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> Cc: Peter Bradley <peredur.net at gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Swlug] Install Linux on ASUS Vivobook Generally hitting one of the f keys gets a boot menu F8 to F12 might work.Best of luckDick free/libre/open, software for the people by the peoplewww.swlug.org  is a good place to go ;-)
On Tue, 6 May 2025, 17:25 Peter Bradley via Swlug, <swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:I have a reasonably new ASUS Vivobook with Windows 11 installed. I would 
really like to get rid of Windows 11 and install a Linux distribution 
instead.

I've downloaded Ubuntu onto a memory stick, but can't get any further 
because I can't find any way to alter the boot order. The BIOS  screen 
appears when I repeatedly hit Esc on startup, but as far as I can see 
there is no option to allow the machine to look for a USB stick before 
it boots from the hard drive. Searching the internet came up with any 
number of suggestions, but none of them works for me as the options they 
mention don't appear on my BIOS screen.

Does anyone know where I can find the option to boot from USB, or any 
other way of getting Linux installed on  this machine?

Thanks in advance

Peter


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