[ubuntu-uk] Windows 8 (a pox on it)

[Rowan Berkeley]

On 15/02/13 17:40, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 15/02/13 17:31, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
>> Thanks for all that, Alan. So, concretely, let's take for instance the
>> Compaq machine which I successfully converted from Windows 8 to Ubuntu
>> 12.10 using a USB stick. Given that F2 no longer works, and that the
>> Windows 8 machinery for getting into UEFI us no longer there, how in
>> fact would I get into UEFI on that machine if for some reason I needed
>> to? The answer is, install Boot-Repair from repositories:
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
>>
>
> F2 isn't a universal BIOS hot-key. It may be some other key, often F10
> on Compaq machines.
>
> Cheers,

Quite right, Alan, it's easy if you know it's F10, and just hold it down 
during start-up. This is the same Compaq CQ58 I bought with Windows 8, 
then installed Ubuntu via a USB stick a couple of months back, then had 
some trouble installing a wireless driver just a couple of weeks ago. 
It's a perfectly normal BIOS facility, once you know how to get into it. 
But of course it isn't me who is up the creek without a paddle, it's my 
friend in Denmark, and I have emailed various extracts from this thread 
to her and suggested she join the list, I know Denmark isn't in the UK, 
but this would be the best place for her to find answers to her problem, 
wouldn't it.