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How To Show The Boot Menu of Your Bios: September 11, 2016

This document provides instructions for accessing the BIOS boot menu on various computers in order to boot from a USB drive. It explains that pressing a specific function key like F2, F10, or Delete when powering on will display the BIOS boot menu. For Apple/Mac computers, hold the Option/Alt key at startup. The document lists common function keys used by different computer manufacturers to access the BIOS boot menu and allows booting from a different device one time or configuring boot order. It also provides tips for disabling secure boot and UEFI mode if needed to boot other operating systems from older BIOS versions.

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How To Show The Boot Menu of Your Bios: September 11, 2016

This document provides instructions for accessing the BIOS boot menu on various computers in order to boot from a USB drive. It explains that pressing a specific function key like F2, F10, or Delete when powering on will display the BIOS boot menu. For Apple/Mac computers, hold the Option/Alt key at startup. The document lists common function keys used by different computer manufacturers to access the BIOS boot menu and allows booting from a different device one time or configuring boot order. It also provides tips for disabling secure boot and UEFI mode if needed to boot other operating systems from older BIOS versions.

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HOW TO SHOW THE BOOT

MENU OF YOUR BIOS


September 11, 2016

There’s a special key in every BIOS (when the computer first boots) that makes you able to
boot from another device that is not its hard disk.

Apple / Mac users: You will simply need to power-on the computer with the USB stick
inserted while the Option/alt(⌥) key is pressed.
You can either enter in the bios to configure the boot order or to hit the key that selects the
device to boot “only this time”, the second option is suggested.

In short, you simply need to turn ON your computer, then immediately press multiple times
the F’ key that a message should tell you something like “boot menu” until a menu appears,
then just select the device which you want to boot from (the one that contains Elive in your
USB or DVD).

This special F’ key is normally F12 in Acer computers and ESC in the Asus ones, you can try all
the F’ keys or better search which F is in a list like here, other common F’s are F10, F2, F1 and
F8

List of function keys used commonly by manufacturer:


• Acer – F2 or delete
• Asus – F2, F9 or delete
• Compaq – F10
• Dell – F2
• Emachines – tab or delete
• HP – Escape, F1 or F10
• Lenovo – F1 or F2
• Lenovo Thinkpad – F12
• NEC – F2
• Packard Bell – F1 or F2
• Samsung – F2 or F10
• Sharp – F2
• Sony – F1, F2 or F3
• Toshiba – Escape, F1, F2 or F12

If your computer uses those newer BIOS that ships with Windows 8 (or more recent) with
the “feature” to restriction to use on it other operating systems, you need to enter in your
BIOS setup and basically:
• disable “secure boot“
• disable “UEFI mode“
• enable “legacy boot“
• enable “CSM“

If you need more info about the UEFI and “Secure Boot” of the bios make a look to our other
FAQ article

Other interesting articles about this topic:


• How to boot from USB in a very old computer that cannot boot from USB
• Small howto about how to access to the bios / boot from bios
• How to enter in the bios

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