[TIP] Boot into your bios quickly without your keyboard

[tonywhelan]

So I think I should call this the 'tip of the day'. If you are like me and have a hard time sometimes getting into your bios to make a change or check things then try this with root privileges:

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systemctl reboot --firmware

Well you do use your keyboard to type it in but this should save you some aggravation over the constant key slapping

This worked on my desktop and laptop. Thanks for the tip!

Neither machine supports adding it to the boot menu though.

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Hmmmm... I wonder if there is a way similar to this to go into the boot menu instead of the BIOS?

According to man systemctl there is such an option:

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sudo systemctl reboot --boot-loader-menu=0

but not all boot loaders support this functionality.. mine doesn't.

Sadly, neither did either of my machines.

[coffee412]

How about dropping the 'boot' part and just using the digits?

BootOrder: 0000,0004,0005,0003,0007,0002,0001,0006,0008

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efibootmgr --bootnext 0007

[revmacian]

How about dropping the 'boot' part and just using the digits?

BootOrder: 0000,0004,0005,0003,0007,0002,0001,0006,0008

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efibootmgr --bootnext 0007

That would make sense since BootCurrent and BootOrder only show digits.