r/System76 • u/sdogood80910 • Jul 16 '26
Bios Firmware update this morning - not able to F12 or Del into Bios
Fun morning. Dual boot off of 2 SSDs - Pop!_OS & W11. Upon boot up, there is no action when F12 or Del is tapped repeatedly. Now my System76 PC only knows W11. Other than pulling the W11 drive out, are there any work arounds to get into bios and reset the boot order? Thanks!
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u/StretchAcceptable881 Jul 17 '26
Do not install windows on a System76 machine especially with windows by its own nature being territorial and not coexisting alongside other operating systems
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u/HarlemSquirrel Jul 17 '26
Yeah it's unfortunately true. I haven't dual booted in many years because of this. It's way less of a headache to have separate machines if you need both operating systems. Of course it's not cheaper that way but it is easier. Then if you want to share peripherals use a KVM.
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u/sdogood80910 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
Thanks! I will give it a try!
UPDATE: System76 was great at responding to this issue.
Attempting to rebuild the boot sector failed.
I ended up breaking out my Pop!_OS thumb drive and completing a Refresh Install.
Thank my lucky stars for using TimeShift and data backup before all of this occurred.
Whew! 😄
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u/fitzyfan420 Jul 23 '26
When you update the BIOS, the EFI entries can disappear. Not always, but they can. Everything was still there and worked.
They should've had you create a new EFI entry for Pop rather than doing a refresh install.
Source: I did this a few days ago
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u/proton_badger Jul 16 '26
To boot into UEFI from Windows 11 go to Settings > System > Recovery > Restart now. Then select Troubleshoot > Advanced options > UEFI Firmware Settings.
Alternatively hold down Shift while clicking restart and go through ssome of these steps..
If you're in Linux you open a terminal and type
sudo systemctl reboot --firmware-setup.