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raster3
Level 7

‎01-19-2012 05:37 PM - last edited on ‎03-06-2024 09:57 PM by Community Admin

i wish to dual boot my G74S and would like to use the button for express gate thing to open linux. is it possible? if so please let me know how! any help would be appreciated, thank you. =]
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dstrakele
Level 14

‎01-19-2012 05:40 PM

Check out this thread: http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?5765-ROG-button-for-boot-linux
G74SX-A1 - stock hardware - BIOS 202 - 2nd Monitor VISIO VF551XVT
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raster3
Level 7
In response to dstrakele

‎01-19-2012 05:48 PM

thanks. =] that last bit was pretty interesting. im currently in an open source operating systems class, and wil have to take a peak at that with my teacher. againe thank you. =]
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dstrakele
Level 14

‎01-19-2012 06:30 PM

Yep - sounds like a good project!
G74SX-A1 - stock hardware - BIOS 202 - 2nd Monitor VISIO VF551XVT
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fostert
Level 12

‎01-19-2012 06:37 PM

Yeah, I wouldn't mind a hardware way of choosing which boot to execute! For now, though, grub works great, and I nearly always boot into Debian. I so rarely boot into windows now that I might like the ROG button to boot Windows instead!
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G74SX-CST1-CBIL, i7 2630QM 2GHz
32GB DDR3 RAM @1333MHz
GTX560M 3GB DDR5 (192 bit)
17.3" LED 1920x1080
Sentelic TP, BIOS 203
Debian Linux Wheezy (Testing) Kernel 3.2, NVIDIA 295.40
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