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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] Bios inaccessible
From:       Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon () decoulon ! ch>
Date:       2015-10-27 19:23:35
Message-ID: 201510272023.35596.tcoulon () decoulon ! ch
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On Tuesday 27 October 2015 19.08:20 Felix Miata wrote:
> Wolfgang Mueller composed on 2015-10-27 18:44 (UTC+0100):
> > Yesterday I bought an HP 15-AF070NG, which was very cheap. My
> > avarice (it's not for nothing that the Roman Catholic church
> > qualifies it as one of the seven deadly sins) was punished
> > immediately because, when I tried to read the first DVD of openSUSE
> > 13.2, the computer booted Windows in spite. Nor was there any
> > possibility to access Bios because none of the usual keys, F2, F6 or
> > F8, worked.
(...)
> > On my opinion, Microsoft now has contracts with the computer makers
> > obliging them, not to give any possibility to the costumers to run
> > an operating system different from Windows.
> >
> > Do you know any remedy or work-around?

That's why I always purchase second hand Thinkpads. Somtimes cheaper that 
those new crapy machines and always ran Linux very well. And I can deactivate 
the touchpad :)

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