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How to Reboot Linux Directly Into UEFI Firmware Settings

One of the nice things in Windows is the ability to reboot directly into UEFI firmware settings (aka BIOS) through Recovery -> Advanced start-up -> UEFI Firmware Settings.

Without it, booting into BIOS is a nightmare where you’re hecticly trying to hit all possible keys 1, only to discover that you missed the right moment and now you need to wait until OS loads.

It turns out that Linux also has this ability:

systemctl reboot --firmware-setup

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  1. The text that says which key to press usually flashes on the screen for about 0.5 seconds 😄 ↩︎