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New Laptop - no option to boot from Cd or from USB

  • 13-11-2013 4:12pm
    #1
    Lovely Bloke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,748 ✭✭✭✭


    I got a new laptop and want to put Mint onto it, but there is no option in the BIOS Boot Menu to allow it to boot from either a CD/DVD or from USB

    I made a Mint installation CD/DVD and Windows 8 can see it, and when I run the exe I get an option to make the computer CD Bootable, but this doesn't work.

    I don't want to install within Windows.


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  • #2
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    Have you gone into the bios itself instead of the boot menu? DVD and USB boot can be disabled as a security precaution.


  • #3
    Dermot Illogical
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭Dermot Illogical


    Baldy Conscience wrote: »
    I got a new laptop and want to put Mint onto it, but there is no option in the BIOS Boot Menu to allow it to boot from either a CD/DVD or from USB

    I made a Mint installation CD/DVD and Windows 8 can see it, and when I run the exe I get an option to make the computer CD Bootable, but this doesn't work.

    I don't want to install within Windows.

    If it's Windows 8 then it's UEFI instead of BIOS. UEFI is designed by Microsoft and Friends to make it as difficult as possible to install any other OS, under the guise of Security.

    Google "disable UEFI secure boot".


  • #4
    excollier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭excollier


    Dermot Illogical wrote: »
    .......under the guise of Security.
    Doesn't give 'em much security though, does it?


  • #5
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,076 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    If your laptop is anything like mine, you leave the BIOS on default settings, but there's a separate boot menu on a different key (F8 in my case). The idea being that you leave the BIOS in the way it needs to be after installation, but invoke USB boot only as a once-off thing.

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  • #6
    F9Devil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 109 ✭✭F9Devil


    It'll be something like F2, F8, F12 or DELETE...

    If they don't work then find your laptop brands BIOS driver and flash the BIOS. Then you should be able to access the BIOS.


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