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Rebooting could be a mini-game where you dodge the user's BIOS keystrokes a few times before they give up

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I'm pretty sure this is exactly what is happening in real life. I pressed F12 damnit! Go into the bios already!!

Some friendly tips from post-silicon validation:

sudo systemctl reboot --firmware

shutdown /r /t 0 /fw

These reboot directly into BIOS.

For Windows CMD+R menu, run it by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+Enter (elevates to admin). You may have to do it twice for some unknown reasons after reinstalling the OS.

You are a life saver. I never knew about --firmware!

Had to learn this recently when my wife’s computer refused to register requests to boot into bios despite spamming F12 / Del many different times across many different USB ports. Such a pain in the ass.

The absolute bane of my existence, I had a time a week ago repairing my bootloader after I (stupidly) did 3 months of windows updates after running a bunch of disk repairs and other recovery based things after I (again, stupidly) fell for a fake repo for deepseek tui and infected myself

Oh man, you've had a week from hell my friend. Uploading virtual platonic data-free hugs

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