AlexOceanic
Member
Hi
I'm trying to run a live version of Kali on an Inspiron 3505 running Windows 10 but I seem to have a limited BIOS menu rather than the original Dell with far more options that I'm seeing on other guides where they disable secure boot, enable USB booting and change the boot order etc.
I've done this long ago with a dual booting grub/Mandriva/XP setup on the old BIOS style but am new to UEFI/Windows 10 and not sure how to get to the advanced BIOS/UEFI settings to enable USB booting. I've disabled the fast boot on Windows, tried accessing the UEFI settings via advanced UEFI settings in Windows which just takes me to the same limited BIOS options screens even from "troubleshooting" etc, launching in Windows safe mode didn't help nor disabling some anti malware protection (option 8) that I thought might be priority booting and locking down a load of BIOS options to prevent access to the laptop if it gets stolen perhaps.
I did see a couple of enabled BIOS settings below that might be causing this but hoping its just some setting I don't know about being unfamiliar with UEFI:
- PowerNow! (AMD CPU performance manager)
- USB Emulation
- Absolute (Absolute Persistence Module - device tracker/recovery service - once permanently disabled cannot be re-enabled!)
- Firmware TPM - Allows OS to skip BIOS PPI user prompts when issuing the Clear command
- Secure boot - This one is actually DISABLED
- Secure Mode - Currently in "Deployed Mode" - Only gives options for "Audit" and "Deployed" rather than also "User" and "Setup" as mentioned in Help text
- File Browser Add Boot Option - Windows Boot Manager - A second line did appear under what I assume to be the Windows bootloader and seemed to be a USB drive but when I selected it, it ignored the .iso and showed as blank - it might've been looking for an EFI system but will have to double check that
If anyone has any ideas on how to get around this issue it would be much appreciated as I'd very much like to get back on Linux and want to show my partner that its painless moving from Windows (after Windows' parting gift of this missing BIOS USB option is resolved anyway!).
SOLUTION (if you don't want to follow the thread)
Use F12 (not F2) to access the UEFI short boot menu at start up - if the USB isn't showing in the list above the Window boot manager then there's probably an issue with the ISO on the USB as per below
For Kali - ensure USB stick partition is set to GPT rather than MBR using Rufus
Many thanks
Alex
I'm trying to run a live version of Kali on an Inspiron 3505 running Windows 10 but I seem to have a limited BIOS menu rather than the original Dell with far more options that I'm seeing on other guides where they disable secure boot, enable USB booting and change the boot order etc.
I've done this long ago with a dual booting grub/Mandriva/XP setup on the old BIOS style but am new to UEFI/Windows 10 and not sure how to get to the advanced BIOS/UEFI settings to enable USB booting. I've disabled the fast boot on Windows, tried accessing the UEFI settings via advanced UEFI settings in Windows which just takes me to the same limited BIOS options screens even from "troubleshooting" etc, launching in Windows safe mode didn't help nor disabling some anti malware protection (option 8) that I thought might be priority booting and locking down a load of BIOS options to prevent access to the laptop if it gets stolen perhaps.
I did see a couple of enabled BIOS settings below that might be causing this but hoping its just some setting I don't know about being unfamiliar with UEFI:
- PowerNow! (AMD CPU performance manager)
- USB Emulation
- Absolute (Absolute Persistence Module - device tracker/recovery service - once permanently disabled cannot be re-enabled!)
- Firmware TPM - Allows OS to skip BIOS PPI user prompts when issuing the Clear command
- Secure boot - This one is actually DISABLED
- Secure Mode - Currently in "Deployed Mode" - Only gives options for "Audit" and "Deployed" rather than also "User" and "Setup" as mentioned in Help text
- File Browser Add Boot Option - Windows Boot Manager - A second line did appear under what I assume to be the Windows bootloader and seemed to be a USB drive but when I selected it, it ignored the .iso and showed as blank - it might've been looking for an EFI system but will have to double check that
If anyone has any ideas on how to get around this issue it would be much appreciated as I'd very much like to get back on Linux and want to show my partner that its painless moving from Windows (after Windows' parting gift of this missing BIOS USB option is resolved anyway!).
SOLUTION (if you don't want to follow the thread)
Use F12 (not F2) to access the UEFI short boot menu at start up - if the USB isn't showing in the list above the Window boot manager then there's probably an issue with the ISO on the USB as per below
For Kali - ensure USB stick partition is set to GPT rather than MBR using Rufus
Many thanks
Alex
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