id: steamdeck title: PXE Booting on the Steam Deck sidebar_label: Steam Deck description: PXE Booting on the Steam Deck
This is a guide to PXE booting the Valve Steam Deck.
To get the Steam Deck to PXE boot, you will need:
Connect the hub, ethernet, and power up to the Steam Deck. The first thing you will want to do is set the BIOS to allow for PXE booting.
To bring up the Steam Deck Boot Loader menus, shutdown the Steam Deck and:
Volume +
, while pressing the power button on
to access the Boot Manager, Setup Utility and Boot from File Menu. (Volume -
will bring up just the Boot Manager)The Steam Deck will now reboot and you will now see the Memory test as Quiet Boot has been disabled. If your Hub is connected to the network properly, and you have DHCP on the network, you should see:
>>Start PXE over IPv4...
At this point you should be able to PXE boot a UEFI image.
Use the:
If you happen to break the Steam Deck when testing Operating Systems or tinkering with it, you can follow the Steam Deck Recovery Instructions here.
If you want to set the BIOS back to the default settings, you can load the BIOS back up, select Restore Defaults, and Exit Saving Changes. That will return the Steam Deck back to its original behavior.