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Soptik

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Registered: 2019-03-11

Posts: 64

[Solved] Cannot enter BIOS/UEFI

Edit: I had previously another issue with booting from USB, but I solved it. The USB was for some reason corrupted.

I use Lenovo Ideapad 330s.

When I was installing arch, I made it dual-boot with Windows.

But now, I didn't use windows in ages. So I decided to nuke Windows and go with only Arch. The disk looked like this:

[XXXXX#########]
X => Windows
# => Linux

I nuked windows partition (mistake, should've done it later), and afterwards realised I cannot get into BIOS. Yes, I went through the internet, I found the keys to boot into BIOS, I tried them all. I tried holding like all the keys trying to get into BIOS. However, I was always greeted by GRUB.

I was able to workaround it by booting into windows (which partition didn't exist, but windows bootloader survived). This greeted me with the recover blue screen, which offered booting into UEFI/BIOS. I selected the option, my laptop rebooted and entered BIOS. However, how will I enter BIOS when I uninstall windows completely? Will I still have to keep the small part of windows so when I attempt to boot into it, it'll send me into bios? I don't like the solution. I couldn’t find a way how to boot into bios/uefi without windows.

Sorry for lack of technical information, but I have no idea where to start. Ask me further, I'll provide as much information as I can.

Thank you,
Soptik

Last edited by Soptik (2019-04-17 15:18:19)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,547

Re: [Solved] Cannot enter BIOS/UEFI

Granted you've installed properly in EFI mode you should be able to use

systemctl reboot --firmware-setup

, alternatively: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GR … UEFI_only)

If that doesn't help, elaborate on what *exactly* you've already tried, and maybe post a

efibootmgr -v

Last edited by V1del (2019-04-17 14:23:56)

Soptik

Member

Registered: 2019-03-11

Posts: 64

Re: [Solved] Cannot enter BIOS/UEFI

Thank you, this solved it. Sorry for taking away your time on such trivial issue, but I was really confused about it and couldn't find anything.