Wanting to run Linux on laptop (Newbie stuff)

[Colin Brace]

On 12/21/05, ron at crump.id.au <ron at crump.id.au> wrote:

> I'd like it to only have linux, but I
> read something on the web about people maintaining a dual-boot
> capability just so that they can access BIOS settings. Is this right?

Why do you need Windows to access the BIOS? You hit F2 or whatever
when you see the BIOS power-up screen and that drops you into the BIOS
menus directly -- no need for XP.

The only possible senario I can imagine is if you want to be able to
flash update the BIOS and your BIOS vendor only permits this by
running a 32-bit Win executable. But this hardly seems worth going to
the trouble of maintaining a dual-boot setup. Perhaps there might be
compelling reasons for dual-boot, but this doesn't sound like one to
me.