I installed Zorin OS 18 on an old Acer Aspire V3-371 with no problems. But when I installed it on another old computer, an Intel NUC5PGYH, I got a "no bootable device found" message. I could run Zorin 18 from the USB, but not from the NUC's SSD.
Based on information that I found online, I tried to get into the UEFI settings. But the NUC ignored F2. The best I could do was get it to boot from the USB.
After much frustration, I guessed that the problem might be the wireless Logitech keyboard that I was using. Maybe the SSD was booting so fast that the dongle couldn't handshake with the keyboard soon enough. So I bought a $4 wired keyboard at Value Village, plugged it in -- and F2 worked.
The Intel NUC had an unusual semi-graphical UEFI interface, but I was able to turn on secure boot, and then select Linux as the preferred OS. Now the machine starts from the SSD just fine. I have yet to use it and evaluate speed, reliability etc.
I have an older NUC and noticed that behavior as well. I keep a USB keyboard around simply for those reasons. (I have lots of hardware to recycle it seems.)
I use a Logitech (small) keyboard and trackball for my NUC and it works fine with the exception of what you mentioned. Getting into the BIOS has always required a USB keyboard.
Excellent feedback! I've noticed over the years that, modern computers that do infact use wireless functionality, doesn't however work at BIOS boot up times, and only seems to work, once in the GUI OS. As such, I do not use wireless input devices on my computer, both the mouse and keyboard are wired.
