Any ideas about how to select boot item (at boot) without being able to see the monitor?

[ohaya1001]

Hi,

I normally use my laptops with an external monitor and an external keyboard. I got a new laptop this past Christmas, a Lenovo Legion 5i Pro. Since I started working with it, I've found some annoying shortcomings because of the way that I use the laptops:

- The laptop does not support wake-on-lan (WOL).
- It appears that the laptop does not send output to HDMI until it starts booting Windows. That means I can't see, or do, anything with BIOS and cannot see the BIU at all if I am using a monitor.

The reason for this post is I wanted to see if there is any way to select which OS to boot into. I know I can do it blindly, but I am wondering if may some way to leverage BIU, somehow, like maybe if there was a way if I pressed "3" during boot that would cause BIU to boot to the 3rd boot item, or something like that?

Or maybe if there be a way to configure BIU so that every time the machine is booting, BIU starts with the 1st boot item. That way, I would at least know how many down arrows to press.

Any other ideas??

Thanks,
Jim

[TeraByte Support(PP)]

You can set a shortcut key to use for a boot item. Then you just press that key to boot it from the menu. For example: "&Windows 10" to use 'W' for shortcut key. Or "Windows &10" to use '1' as the shortcut key. Or "&1 Windows 11 Main" and "&2 Windows 11 Testing" or whatever you want. The shortcut character will be underlined in the menu.

From Windows, you could use BootNow to boot items directly.

[ohaya1001]

Hi,

WOW! That sounds perfect!!

So if I have a timeout set, I can either press one of the keys that I shorcutted, or it will just boot to item that is selected already?

Is that something you all did because some people had the same problem that I am having with the Lenovo laptop (just curious)?

Thanks!

Jim

EDIT: I didn't realize what you meant by "Bootnow" but I just saw it on your website. That will be helpful also!!

[TeraByte Support(PP)]

So if I have a timeout set, I can either press one of the keys that I shorcutted, or it will just boot to item that is selected already?

The timeout stops if there is user input. The input is then processed normally.

[Bob Coleman]

The shortcut has probably solved your problem, but note that you can set one of the bot items as the default also.

[ohaya1001]

Thanks!