a. When the ASRock screen appears, press F11 to enter the Boot Menu. Choose the UEFI USB boot option using the cursor keys. Press Enter Setup.

b. When the ASUS screen appears, press Del to enter the Boot Menu. Using the mouse, under Boot Override click UEFI: [USB name] [USB information]. This will trigger the next menu to appear.

Option	What it does	When to use option
Customer Factory Reset	- Keeps network configuration - Keeps hostname (i.e. PCA1XXX) - Keeps data - Does not clear the metadata or format all the disks	- To reset the device to a MinKNOW version reflected on the image name (e.g. 22.10 ISO = MinKNOW 22.10) - To reset the device to a known state whilst attempting to keep existing data
Reset Install and keep /data	- Keeps network configuration - Keeps hostname (i.e. PCA1XXX) - Keeps data - Does not clear the metadata or format all the disks	Functionally identical to the Customer Factory Reset option
Format Disks and lose /data	- Does not keep network configuration - Does not keep hostname (i.e. PCA1XXX) - Does not keep data - Clears the metadata and formats all the disks	- Issue with data storage or a new unformatted drive (e.g. faulty drive or drive replaced) - If the keep /data option does not resolve the issue
SECURE WIPE - can take hours	- Does not keep network configuration - Does not keep hostname (i.e. PCA1XXX) - Does not keep data	Use only if requested by a member of Technical Services - this option completely wipes the disks by writing all data to 0

Note: The blue desktop may fill the entire screen. You can press Esc to view the menu in the default browser.

Any previous changes to the device password will have defaulted back to grid. If you need to update the default password, follow the instructions here.

The keyboard and mouse may take several minutes to be recognised by the device during the first time booting up.

ont-gridion-serial set GXBXXXX

where GXBXXXX is the serial ID as included on the label on the back of your device.

A script has been written to help you to configure your network. Open a Terminal window and enter:

ont-network-settings

The options for this script are:

--dhcp (optional) - Use DCHP and removes need for all other features except for the interfaces, bond and overwrite --address ip_address (required) - IP address of the device --subnet subnet_mask (required) - Subnet mask for the device --gateway gateway_address (required) - Default gateway for the device --dns DNS_server1,DNS_server2 (required) - DNS servers for the device --search your_domain (required) - Your domain suffix (e.g. yourcompany.local) --overwrite (optional) --help - Details the options above

To update the settings, run the suitable command from the above options with the --overwrite flag and reboot your device.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install ont-gridion-release

ont-system-test (not available on some ISO images)
ont-validate-install
You should see the following message if the installation was successful:

All Packages installed and nvidia is happy, so resetting ont-restore-apt

If the installation was unsuccessful, run the following commands:

sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo ont-validate-install
sudo reboot

If the issue has not been resolved after a reboot, contact Technical Support at support@nanoporetech.com.