Bios Setting: F2 diabled

[Alexandra Zaharia]

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Chaman Singh Verma <csv610 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I upgraded from ububtu 8.* to the latest 9.* on my machine. but after that
> my DVD device stopped working
> and just after booting I used to get to Bios setting after pressing F2
> button, now it doesn't work either.

Are you sure the standard way to enter your BIOS settings is pressing
the F2 key?

There are lots of motherboards which come with a lot of BIOS-es and
not all of them map F2 for the way to enter the settings.

What you can try is to keep pressing one of the following keys
repeatedly until something pops up (if it does), before the operating
system/boot loader menu loads: try F1, F2, ESC, DEL, F10 and F12.

The best you could do would be to find out the exact model of your
motherboard and look up the official user guide for it (in case you
don't have the printed version any more).

Anyhow, what's sure is that an Ubuntu install or upgrade could not
have in any way affected your BIOS key mappings... the operating
system and the Basic I/O System are entirely different things.