Ok. Makes sense. I honestly do NOT remember how I got into bios or whatever you call it now, but it was a combination of keys. I seem to remember ESC-F11 for some reason. Now that I've loaded Lubuntu, I'll have to go back in and look.

What is the whole reasoning process behind locking a "bios" to the "OS" and encrypting (with a key I assume) access? One more way for Windows to force themselves on the public perhaps?

I mean to me it is a serious issues to be locked into this or that OS, prevented from loading what I want on MY machine I paid cash money for, and the ability to be free in what I do, want to use or NOT want to use.

Android pisses me off sometimes. Kindle... for instance (my Kindle Fire, 1st gen) was just such a thing. I didn't like the fact that Amazon locked it down. I rooted it. Now recently they fucked it by an OTA "update" which locked it out, and won't allow me to use it now. It keeps rebooting back into recovery mode (that's the background OS used to help you change the rom etc).

So, a couple days ago, I wiped the "Kindle" part and loaded a full-on android ROM. I figured I'd get around Kindle's bull shit, download "Kindle Reader for Android" and read my books.

Nope. when you re-register the device using a new android it CHECKS to see what kind of device you have and DENIES you access.

They also have disallowed anyone using a Kindle from reading on the Cloud, forcing you to download their App. Which in turn, checks the device (I can read on my galaxy, with no issues, but NOT on my kindle! WTF? LOL)

Then, of course, you can't put Google Apps or the play store on your kindle unless you root it, once you root it, Amazon is checking now. Somehow they have locked me out from being able to reflash my rooting program or putting an older version of TWRP back on. (I've see others complaining about this, so it's not just me).

I'm a little peeved that an OS maker thinks they somehow have the right to limit what you can do with your own device. I'm not RENTING the fucking thing, I BOUGHT it.

Given all that I probably should have just left my kindle as a kindle and been done but at the time I rooted it, I didn't have my tablet yet and I wanted to do things Amazon wasn't allowing. So much for being ahead of the power curve I suppose.

Anyway, for what it is worth, I have a good android rom on there which is working, I can carry it when I don't want to drag the other tablet along with me and it fits in my jacket pocket instead of having to carry it in a case, or a bag like my laptop. But given THAT, I'll most likely carry my laptop in the islands when I want to go sit at the bar and have a beer and answer email anyway... so who knows. Maybe I'll just carry the tablet when I'm in a hurry....