Me pressing Del like Im Rowan Atkinson at the 2012 Olympics
On my system, I can just run
$ sudo systemctl reboot --firmware-setupAnd it’ll take the system to the BIOS.
From the
systemctl(1)man page:--firmware-setup When used with the reboot, poweroff, or halt command, indicate to the system's firmware to reboot into the firmware setup interface for the next boot. Note that this functionality is not available on all systems. Added in version 220. --boot-loader-menu=timeout When used with the reboot, poweroff, or halt command, indicate to the system's boot loader to show the boot loader menu on the following boot. Takes a time value as parameter — indicating the menu timeout. Pass zero in order to disable the menu timeout. Note that not all boot loaders support this functionality. Added in version 242.I’ve been buying Gigabyte and pressing “DEL” since 1998.
It’s insane that there is no accepted UX standard for this.
The keys should be standard and work if just held down.
work if just held down
They do!
On some machines.
I dont know enough about electronics to say for certain but I think Holding down the key doesn’t work from a technical standpoint. If you press it down before the relevant stage of the boot process is running there might not actually run any code to even detect the key press. And holding down a key doesn’t continuously send new keypresses. Only “key down” and “key released”.
But 100% agree on the standardised key. And it should be something that ia on every keyboard and not behind an alternative funktion! No alt/shift/fn. Just make it enter or something!
yep, on ps2 keyboards this is the case
Keyboards don’t run like that. The keyboard itself does not know when a key is pressed. They poll the keys and send a message when they find one that is depressed
nah this is how ps2 works
PS2 is hardly used in consumer products these days.
If you press it down before the relevant stage of the boot process is running there might not actually run any code to even detect the key press.
I think I have seen it work on several machines, but stopped doing it because often it does not
Actually, holding down the key does work!
With sequel "The Escape or F12“ coming to theaters Fall 2025.
Plot twist: It was INS the whole time.
I have one that uses f8.
Would have been nice if they could have standardized this like 30 years ago. Or at least just label the key.
Mine uses F8 for the boot picker
Me pressing F1, F2, DEL, Enter, … to be sure.
Why can’t they make a universal freakin’ dedicated button to enter UEFI?
Best I can do is Alexa button.
🤮
You know you can just hold the button down right?
Sometimes it doesn’t work though. If you start to hold the enter-the-uefi-setup button too early it might not do anything. And mashing the keys sometimes don’t work either.
This shit gives me headaches sometimes. ESPECIALLY WHEN FUCKING WINDOWS STARTS TO BOOT UP.
WHAT
FU Dell BIOS and your F11 b/s.
This Trick took better timing and more skill than all the rest of the movies combined.
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