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Similar: laptop hooked with second display. There is no operating system drive connected. The second display has view of bios.

Will disconnect all drives force yours to show bios?
"*PS Bios in this machine can be access by pressing an small side button" Yes it is the tiniest of ...

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Dear Friends, I am so sorry I couldn't return here sooner. Thank you so very much for all your replies.

I will reply to you all here in the same post. Please have in mind: 1) english isn't my native language.

2) this is a broken laptop which I was successfully able to turn into a "desktop ...

Hello friends! I have a laptop (lenovo idea pad S400) with a broken screen. In order to have video I use and HDMI (only output here) - VGA adapter. However it is impossible to get video during booting time, so I cannot access the BIOS. I only get image when the OS is up . I have been searching a lot ...

j2mcgreg wrote: Sun Oct 06, 2024 10:36 am Go to Settings --> Keyboard and enable "Restore num lock state on start up".

Thank you, I don't speak German but the translator helped me. And you helped me as-well!

CharlesV wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2024 6:27 pm Yup.. and that shows that your group owner permissions are not Read+writable.

Have a look here at the permissions you should have for a folder / file.

https://linuxhandbook.com/linux-file-permissions/

thank you so very much!. I will save this website as pdf so I can read it step by step.

@ Stuart_M thank you very much for such a good work, and detailed explanation!.

that means you have no files in that folder / directory. In order to see your rights for that folder.. you need to be one folder above it and do this:

ls -ld your_directory

ls is the list command.

- indicates the beginning of the command options.

l asks for a long list which includes the ...

@pcfan
IIRC, you had a little trouble setting up the DATA partition - or whatever was used.
You may want to include that link, or at least the part indicating what you did.

Also, IIRC, I would not have done it the way that you did, BUT that's mostly because I really only know my method.

IIRC ...

CharlesV wrote: Tue May 28, 2024 7:42 pm Ownership does not necessarily mean that you have the rights specified to write to a folder.

do an
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in that folder and see what rights you have in that folder. If you dont have rights to write, then you need to add them.

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I don't know what this mean or how to change it.

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