On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:30:46 -0700, Yasha Karant <[email protected]> wrote:
> >My HP laptop presents the same as in the comment above with a slight >difference in the F9 prompt -- I used the upgrade bay to get to the DVD >boot. I have contacted HP technical support to discover any solution >and will post a solution if there is interest; this seems to be a common >problem with this vendor. If you have encountered a similar situation, >please let me know. > >Yasha Karant >========================================================================= Yasha, I can verify that this is an issue with the Elitebook 2530p as well. This seems to be a BIOS issue (since the issue spans multiple distributions), and is not limited to CDs. For example, a USB image created with dd will result in the same lockup, but a FAT32 formatted device imaged with UNetbootin will work fine. Just pure speculation at this point, but perhaps this is a security measure? The workaround, as you have pointed out, is the CD tray trick, or using UNetbootin to create a bootable USB device. Regards, Joe Kiser
