dankegel
August 16th, 2018, 07:37 PM
Hi!
I'm installing Ubuntu on a bunch of new Dell 8930 PCs.
They appear to ship suspended, so when you power them on, they resume to Windows Setup
rather than do a POST. That means they ignore the keyboard, and you can't get a boot menu.
You're forced to go through Windows Setup.
But I don't want to do that, not even once, not even a little bit. I want to abort out of
the Windows setup or not resume into it at all, and instead boot straight to an
Ubuntu usb install.
Anyone know how to coax a new Dell PC to POST rather than resume?
(I know, I could click through and accept the windows license, and it would probably work,
but I don't want to do that.)
I did it successfully with the first two systems, but the third one refused to do anything
but a) boot loop or b) resume windows setup until I finished setup and let it boot to windows,
where I grudgingly turned off fast boot (turning off secure boot also seemed neccessary
to get out of the boot loop) and shut windows down for the first and last time.
Is there some key that 'bios' pays attention to when it's in that "I'm going to
ignore the keyboard and resume from disk" mode?
I'm installing Ubuntu on a bunch of new Dell 8930 PCs.
They appear to ship suspended, so when you power them on, they resume to Windows Setup
rather than do a POST. That means they ignore the keyboard, and you can't get a boot menu.
You're forced to go through Windows Setup.
But I don't want to do that, not even once, not even a little bit. I want to abort out of
the Windows setup or not resume into it at all, and instead boot straight to an
Ubuntu usb install.
Anyone know how to coax a new Dell PC to POST rather than resume?
(I know, I could click through and accept the windows license, and it would probably work,
but I don't want to do that.)
I did it successfully with the first two systems, but the third one refused to do anything
but a) boot loop or b) resume windows setup until I finished setup and let it boot to windows,
where I grudgingly turned off fast boot (turning off secure boot also seemed neccessary
to get out of the boot loop) and shut windows down for the first and last time.
Is there some key that 'bios' pays attention to when it's in that "I'm going to
ignore the keyboard and resume from disk" mode?