[GTALUG] Questions for sys install

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 01:59:26PM -0600, o1bigtenor wrote:
> Greetings
> 
> Laptop my wife has been using a her computer is starting to have
> occasional graphics issues. Its an all in one mobo but its also almost
> 7 years old so looked for a replacement.
> 
> BestBuy had some systems on sale for after Christmas so ordered an Asus desktop.
> 
> AMD mobo 6 GB of ram, built in wifi w DVD RW all for can $360 inc shipping.
> 
> Now comes the kicker. Wanted to set the uefi bios to boot from Cd-rom
> so that I could use gparted to give myself some disc room to enable a
> dual boot system (Debian testing being the flavor du jour). It will
> NOT boot onto the cd-rom it says that an illegal modification has been
> made to the bios and the next boot option must be chosen.
> 
> (There was zero material with this system. It boots and all but there
> is nothing with it. Even the OS key is burned into the bios. There
> isn't even a system sticker any more!!)
> 
> Any suggestions on how to get this system to boot onto the cd-rom
> short of pulling the hard drive and replacing it?

Disable secureboot in the "BIOS".

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Len Sorensen