Laptop not showing BIOS only Ctrl+S menu

[rwnano]

Hi - I bought a laptop off of eBay which is showing no BIOS menu only a Blancco screen post the hard drive erasure.
It also gives a PXE 61 error
initializing and establishing link
PXE e61
PXE m01
error establishing link

I flashed a USB drive with Ubuntu and then boot and load Ubuntu on the PC. But the USB drive is not booted from.
Unable to access BIOS and boot order

 

[bobbyprajan]

Try talking to the seller for assistance. If it is a corrupt BIOS, you should contact a qualified technician

 

[mbhangui]

Hi - I bought a laptop off of eBay which is showing no BIOS menu only a Blancco screen post the hard drive erasure.
It also gives a PXE 61 error
initializing and establishing link
PXE e61
PXE m01
error establishing link

I flashed a USB drive with Ubuntu and then boot and load Ubuntu on the PC. But the USB drive is not booted from.
Unable to access BIOS and boot order

You erased the hard disk without setting the boot order. So it is now trying lan since the internal hard disk does not have a boot sector

You need to find the hot key for accesing the BIOS. It totally depends on the laptop manufacturer for the hot key. Google search for the laptop make, model to get the magic key to invoke BIOS setup before boot.

 

[rwnano]

F1 - formula 1 - discovered it for this thinkpad. Entered BIOS...now was trying to put USB FDD in the boot order but am not able to.

 

[mbhangui]

F1 - formula 1 - discovered it for this thinkpad. Entered BIOS...now was trying to put USB FDD in the boot order but am not able to.

Look at the bios settings. There will be a separate item for 'boot from usb' somewhere. It is not possible for any bios to not have the setting. Some have a different button to boot from usb drive. Some have a menu item different from the disk boot order menu item.

How to boot from a USB Drive - ThinkPad - Lenovo Support IN

support.lenovo.com

See both videos. First one is for thinkpad that have the blue button. Second one is for thinkpad that don't have the blue thinkvantage blue button

 

[rwnano]

Got it. Thanks for your kindness in supporting. I was able to access the bios and then boot it from the USB. But the USB with Ubuntu is not behaving properly. So I will reformat..thank you.

 

[surfatwork]

Once you boot into a Linux distro and install it locally, you can use efibootmgr to set your boot order. Assuming it's a uefi system