• pHr34kY@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 months ago

    I’ve been buying Gigabyte and pressing “DEL” since 1998.

    It’s insane that there is no accepted UX standard for this.

      • groet@feddit.org
        0·
        7 months ago

        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!

        • kaidezee@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          I dont know enough about electronics to say for certain but I think Holding down the key doesn’t work from a technical standpoint.

          It works on my machine ;)

            • Bezier@suppo.fi
              1·
              7 months ago

              Most pc brands’ boot menus have kinda blended together for me. The last time I tried it and remember the brand, it was someone’s razer laptop, so that at least doesn’t support it. Macs always do, which is nice.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    On my system, I can just run

    $ sudo systemctl reboot --firmware-setup

    And 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.
  • f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    I saw one Microsoft help page in which the customer service agent recommended to cut power to the PC during the Windows 8 or 10 boot process, three times! After three failed boots, newer Windows will bring up the UEFI boot options dialog.

    My Sharp PC-7000 has a Setup key on the keyboard.

    • F04118F@feddit.nl
      1·
      7 months ago

      Oh my god, it exists. An Enter key large enough to please both ANSI and ISO fans.