Our unacquainted friend 'Ron Krebs' enlightened us thusly:

Nope, and Acer doesn't want you to do this because of security issues and
licensing issues with MS.

MS? Well i do not use Redmond software, Linux only mate.
And btw it's my hardware so sorry but I don't care what Acer wants.

Furthermore, some flash drives aren't even
recognized as bootable by the BIOS even if they are formatted that way.
I need to boot a USB2-HDD, and Linux only.

I
have a Corsair Voyager and these are NOT recognized by Acer Notebooks as
bootable. However, other USB flash drives are. The Transcend Jetflash I
just got is recognized and WILL boot into a PE as long as the USB boot
devices are listed higher in priority than either the HDD or the DVD.
I can choos only between CDROM and HDD.

On
my 5672 I can also enable the boot menu thru the BIOS so that I have the
option during POST to select any bootable drive (via F12).
I got it too, but there is no USB listed. So i want to enable it in BIOS.
I know it's there.

The BIOSes on
notebooks have always been notoriously skimpy and the mfg-ers will not
change that despite the pleading by its customers. There are almost NO
meaningful user configurable options in notebook BIOS'.

I know. So i'm just asking if someone has already hacked the BIOS of that
particullar laptop so i don't have to hack it myself.

Thx mate anyway.

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