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#21 2020-08-31 16:52:39

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Re: How to install Lithium with USB stick

Haven't you set the boot order in the BIOS yet? The keys to access that will be specific to your hardware (often it is F2).


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#22 2020-08-31 19:13:48

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Re: How to install Lithium with USB stick

damo wrote:

Haven't you set the boot order in the BIOS yet? The keys to access that will be specific to your hardware (often it is F2).

For some reason, I cannot access BIOS. I know I have done it before, but it's been a long time and that was prior to the Ubuntu 18.04 install.

I tried using all the methods mentioned on the web for Lenovo laptops - Fn + F2, or F2, and nothing works. I tried it before, during, and just after the Lenovo power-up screen comes up. It just goes right through it to the Ubuntu log-in process.

Hitting ESC during the process will bring up GRUB, but I cannot get into the BIOS.

Am I missing something obvious and just being dense?


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#23 2020-08-31 20:28:00

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Re: How to install Lithium with USB stick

^ Whatever you do, you need to change the boot order, else it will keep booting to the main drive.


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#24 2020-08-31 21:58:25

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Re: How to install Lithium with USB stick

GalacticStone wrote:

Am I missing something obvious and just being dense?

You should press Fn + F2 repetedly direct after turning on power.

If you wait, boot goes to the harddisk.


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#25 2020-09-01 04:42:15

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Re: How to install Lithium with USB stick

To temporarily change boot device. you can access the boot manager with keys Fn + F12.


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#26 2020-09-01 08:27:25

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Re: How to install Lithium with USB stick

On my Lenovo laptop I have to use a paperclip to press what they call the "NOVO button" to access BIOS. It's a small pinhole with a backwards arrow icon - on my laptop it's next to the power button.

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#27 2020-09-01 09:00:34

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Re: How to install Lithium with USB stick

Jimbo_G wrote:

the "NOVO button" to access BIOS.

Yes, @GalacticStone, the Novobutton can be used to: "start the recovery system or the BIOS setup utility, or to enter the boot menu." Page 11 in Lenovo ideapad 2in1 14 User Guide

Furthermore: Your computer is EFI-based. On some EFI-based computers, it is possible to enter bios from the console, if it is booted with EFI.

Enter

sudo systemctl reboot --firmware

in terminal. Command:

bootctl status

, tells you if it is booted with EFI or not.

Btw, you started to write about problems with writing the iso to usb-pin, but all the time the problem was to boot the stick. You saw your Grub-menu from your harddisk and did not give that information...

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#28 2020-09-02 12:59:07

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Re: How to install Lithium with USB stick

Aaaahhh yes, the Novo button. I forgot I had one. I didn't think this model had one because there is no button visible and I forgot about the little hole next to the power button. Now I recall using it exactly once. When I got this laptop, it has Windows on it and had to use that button to access BIOS then to get Ubuntu installed. I had since forgotten about that hidden button.

I am tied up again until the weekend, so I will give it another shot then.  smile


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