[Discuss] Issues with new Linux computer mostly addressed

[Jean Taggart]

Do you see the splash screen? 

The big Asus logo? Could be that you’re UEFI isn’t set to show the boot options. Or that the boot options are ALSO disabled. 

Depending on the models F8 should show you all the drives.

I remember a computer store on Bay Street used to go so far as to lock out their customers out of the BIOS for “reasons”...

We can also configure grub to increase the delay, and even not proceed further without interaction. (Pick the OS manually).

That’s something we can change by entering the UEFI by pressing delete or F12 repeatedly at startup.

I’m an old hand at dual booting. We can fix it. 
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> On Nov 21, 2018, at 5:06 PM, Murray Strome <wmstrome at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hello Jean,
> What if you have a computer like mine, on which you cannot see the BIOS or boot menu, so can't boot from anything but the two bootable partitions on the hard drive, and even to do that into the Windows partition is a hit or miss thing (have to repeatedly push the down arrow three times then RETURN immediately after starting or restarting and if I am lucky, it will go to the Windows partition rather than the LINUX one)?
> Murray
>> On 2018-11-21 7:21 a.m., Jean Taggart wrote:
>> Hello Allan,
>> 
>> Updating a bios (or UEFI, as it’s called now) is super easy. The main board manufacturer explains the procedure on their website. Gone are the stressful days of past. I’m willing to give a hand, if you want. I’ve done it a bajillion times. All you need is a USB key and about 15 minutes.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>>> On Nov 20, 2018, at 11:49 PM, Alan W. Irwin <Alan.W.Irwin1234 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 2018-11-20 14:59-0800 Jean Taggart wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Did you ever update the bios?
>>> This test result of 5+ days uptime was without a BIOS upgrade.  But
>>> posting that uptime result here obviously jinxed the on-going uptime
>>> experiment because soon after that post, my system locked up!  :-(
>>> 
>>> There are a few other kernel possibilities (e.g., custom kernels that
>>> are more up-to-date than 4.18.10) I would like to try, and meanwhile I
>>> also plan to use the box hard (e.g., for getting out a long-overdue
>>> PLplot release).  But if those kernel possibilities also don't provide
>>> a solution with 40+ day uptimes, then I do plan (likely in January) to
>>> get my box assembler (Mother Computers) to update the BIOS for me.
>>> 
>>> Alan
>>> 
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