IS the OS verification on? That might ignore the bootable USB stick if it's on. I have not had any issues installing Kubunutu onto HP laptops. I think I may have had to play with some settings in the past as the transition to EFI was being made. It has been a while since I needed to do that.
Dave On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 11:20 AM DANIEL CONNELLY < [email protected]> wrote: > I am far from resolving this. I do not have possession of this HP laptop > right now. I won't get to play with the laptop again until Sunday. > However, I do know that enabling HP Legacy Mode is not sufficient on its > own. I tried this. Its not the same as good ole BIOS. Its a mode within > EFI, which is an HP thing, not otherwise defined. You still need a GPT > partition (apparently) for any OS under HP's EFI Legacy Mode. > My immediate goal in this project is only to run KUbuntu (or any Linux > distro) "LIVE" from an ISO image residing on a USB stick drive. I do not > want to scrub the Win8 hard drive (just yet). > Since the ISO-on-USB I have is not a GPT partition, HP's EFI rejects it, > even in Legacy Mode. > HP Legacy Mode defaults to the hard drive's GPT partition and insists on > booting Windows despite the presence of the ISO-on-USB stick. Boot order > is ignored. Possibly I could grab control under the Windows 8 Boot > Manager (GrUBy thing) and have it boot KUbuntu from an ISO. I haven't > tried this (yet). > Another possibility is that I can expand from the KUbuntu ISO download to > a FAT32 file system on a GPT partition on the USB. The EFI firmware > should (in theory) be able to boot this directly without ever having to > bring up (ugh!) Windows 8. > The actual installation of Linux to the HP laptop hard disk awaits me. I > am in hopes I can get GrUB to negotiate the EFI issues on HP. > > > > > > > On February 11, 2020 at 1:47 PM Ron Lawrence <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > I am not up on the lingo, but have dealt with something similar > recently. I > > believe you can revert the boot to USB with a BIOS setting. > > > > A quick search turned up the following, that sounds familiar: > > > > "To boot the PC you need to go into the BIOS and enable legacy mode." > > > https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Operating-System-and-Recovery/Can-t-b > > oot-from-USB-or-DVD-HP-Pavilion-g6-2257sr/m-p/2305227#M411916 > > > > > > FWIW > > > > Ron Lawrence > > > -- David Tisdell, Music Teacher/Drama Director Browns River Middle School 20 River Road Jericho, VT 05465 802-899-3711 -- This e-mail may contain information protected under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). If this e-mail contains student information and you are not entitled to access such information under FERPA, please notify the sender. Federal regulations require that you destroy this e-mail without reviewing it and you may not forward it to anyone.
