No F Key Boot Menu

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Often the escape key can be used to bring up a boot menu. That being
said, there's usually an option in bios to set more than 1 boot drive,
such that if the 1st 1 doesn't contain bootable media, it'll move onto
the 2nd 1, etc.

On 8/5/19, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
> My bios:
> Board: EVGA INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD 131-HE-E995 1.0
> UEFI: American Megatrends Inc. 2.08 06/28/2019
> does not seem to have a function whereby you can select a device to boot
> from using one of the function keys. Instead, one must physically go into
> the bios and change boot order, if, for example, you wish to boot from a
> flash drive to install an OS. And if that flash drive is subsequently
> removed, the system will not boot, until you go into the bios and change the
> boot order, again.
> My question: is this normal bios behavior these days, or is something wrong
> in my particular implementation. I turned off the secure boot function in
> there. Would turning that on fix this? What else might I look for in the
> bios to either (a) allow for falling back on different devices should one be
> removed or (b) to allow the function key boot menu found in previous bios
> implementations.
>
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