{"id":123,"date":"2013-04-10T17:35:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T17:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aixperts.co.uk\/?p=123"},"modified":"2016-01-30T13:15:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T13:15:39","slug":"entering-bios-on-a-toshiba-satellite-c855-2f0-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aixperts.co.uk\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Entering BIOS on a Toshiba Satellite C855-2F0 laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently bought a Toshiba Satellite with the intention of putting Linux (Ubuntu) on it. The first hurdle turned out to get it to boot from a DVD or USB stick. I don&#8217;t understand why it has to be so difficult to get into BIOS on modern laptops.<\/p>\n<p>This does not have anything to do with UEFI or secure boot but seems to be an attempt to stop people putting anything but Windows on their laptops. There is a trick to get in, though.<\/p>\n<p>Start your laptop up. Then shut it down again, whilst holding down the left shift key. Once powered off, hold down &lt;F2&gt; and power it back on again. This will bring up a standard BIOS menu.<\/p>\n<p>The laptop still would not boot my USB Ubuntu distro (written with LiLi USB creator) and it took disabling Secure Boot and UEFI booting in BIOS to get it to boot from the DVD. I now have both Windows 8 and Ubuntu installed but it requires switching BIOS from standard to UEFI boot to switch between them. Also, the Realtek RTL8723AE wifi adapter doesn&#8217;t work and a bit of Googling suggests that Linux 3.8 is needed for this.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned, UEFI dual boot and wifi will be the next little projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently bought a Toshiba Satellite with the intention of putting Linux (Ubuntu) on it. The first hurdle turned out to get it to boot from a DVD or USB stick. I don&#8217;t understand why it has to be so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aixperts.co.uk\/?p=123\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29,28,31,27,30],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-bios","tag-laptop","tag-secure","tag-toshiba","tag-uefi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aixperts.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aixperts.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aixperts.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aixperts.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aixperts.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aixperts.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/www.aixperts.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aixperts.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aixperts.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aixperts.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}