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publicus

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Registered: 2014-01-01

Posts: 129

[RESOLVED] Toshiba Satellite S50-C can't get into BIOS

I burned a fresh copy of Arch, put it in my DVD drive and rebooted my machine.  The problem, it seems, is that since it boots so fast, I don't have enough time set it to boot from media as opposed to HD.  The boot time is literally less than 2 seconds (I have Windows 10 and a solid state drive.)  And I don't see how I can even access BIOS at all...

My question is this, what should I do now?  How can I get Arch on this laptop and make it do what *I* want it to do and not Microsoft.

Any suggestions?

[edit]

The solution was to constantly press F2 at boot-up until I got into the BIOS.

Last edited by publicus (2015-09-05 05:08:51)

tabsterleir

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Registered: 2015-07-27

Posts: 17

Re: [RESOLVED] Toshiba Satellite S50-C can't get into BIOS

For future reference, the BIOS/UEFI access key on 99% of Toshibas is F2 and the boot menu key is F12. They have kept this the same for many years across many models.

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