{"id":992,"date":"2017-04-28T14:43:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T22:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=992"},"modified":"2017-04-28T14:43:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T22:43:24","slug":"windows-bios-and-uefi-adios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/28\/windows-bios-and-uefi-adios\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows, BIOS, and UEFI — Adios!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had some trouble with the laptop (an HP x360 13-A113CL<\/a>) upgrading to Ubuntu 17.04. But something I did along the way gave the Windows an opening to screw me up, and it did. (I have Windows waiting to screw things up, like a Virus you have to pay for and then validate with a license key, sitting there in a dual-boot configuration (unseen and unused since sometime last September). The simplest way to straighten things out was to reinstall Linux. But things keep changing in the hardware-meant-to-run Windows world, so…<\/p>\n

The laptop was only half the problem. I\u00c2\u00a0was doing some other work on a completely different PC and and wanted watch YouTube videos and look at manuals on the computer next to me. But it was a Windows PC (a Lenovo H535<\/a>), and it had a weird audio problem where two drivers were contesting\u00c2\u00a0over who was in charge of sound output, so I could only get sound with the first video. After\u00c2\u00a0fighting that for half an hour, I said, okay, then, time to give this machine a real operating system.<\/p>\n

So: here are some notes.<\/p>\n

First, the way you get to the “BIOS” options is probably F1<\/strong>. Probably.\u00c2\u00a0(HP<\/a>, Lenovo<\/a>)<\/p>\n

But it’s not BIOS, it’s UEFI<\/a> and no matter what you do<\/a>, you’ll wish they’d never come up with Secure Boot, especially if you want Linux<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So you’ll probably want to use Ubuntu Boot Repair<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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