<div dir="ltr">My drive is plugged in and yes I can boot into a live CD. For a while it allowed me to fix the grub bootloader. Not it says it found a GPT partition but nothing is on there but the OS. And when I try to format a bios_boot partition. It just throws up more errors.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 6:57 PM, koder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iscreamkid@gmail.com" target="_blank">iscreamkid@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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If you do not have the hard drive plugged in can you boot to your
DVD?<br>
<br>
In other words can you boot up, say with Knoppix or equivalent?<div><div class="h5"><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<div>On 12/17/2014 12:05 PM, Stephen M
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">
<div dir="ltr">Plus rufus doesn't see my USB drive when my laptop
does. As for trying to open an EFI shell, thats not happening.<br>
<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:59 AM,
Stephen Partington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com" target="_blank">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:
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<p dir="ltr">Nevermind missed that this was post dban. </p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 17, 2014 11:58 AM,
"Stephen Partington" <<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com" target="_blank">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br type="attribution">
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<p dir="ltr">Well that's strange. We're there any
recent changes? </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 17, 2014 11:26 AM,
"Stephen M" <<a href="mailto:smelheim85@gmail.com" target="_blank">smelheim85@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br type="attribution">
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<div>Yes the BIOS does see them both. The
trouble is that it was booting to EFI first
now it won't boot to either legacy or EFI.
It just sits there after the setup screen.<br>
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Ya thats what I am trying to work with. I
have a copy of WINs7 but it doesn't want to
load. This computer doesn't have a floppy and
I don't have access to one at the moment. So
I need to find other solutions.<br>
</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 17, 2014
at 11:21 AM, Stephen Partington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com" target="_blank">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>></span>
wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">2 thoughts,</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">1 - Does the bios see
the drive physically?</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br>
</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">2 - you will need a
boot disk (freeDOS or something
similar) to run the executable. or a
windows environment.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">
<div>
<div><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec
17, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Michael
Butash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a>></span>
wrote:
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<div>HP is notoriously
horrible about supporting
linux on desktop or
laptop's, so you won't get
help there. They're also
quite proprietary acpi
implementations, so likely
still (haven't looked in a
while) no one bothers to
figure out and support them.<br>
<br>
My first, and subsequently
last, hp laptop I kept the
original windoze disk for
this purpose alone, and just
loaded new ssd's with
linux. About 6mo ago I sold
to a friend, but flashed the
bios from windoze luckily
having kept it as the only
option I could find to get a
current bios on it. Install
xp long enough on a temp
disk to flash it?<br>
<br>
This is why I've usually
decried HP to the good folks
on this list - they're just
not linux friendly, and
hardly worth a darn for
anything but servers
anymore.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>
-mb</font></span>
<div>
<div><br>
<br>
<br>
On 12/17/2014 11:03 AM,
Stephen M wrote:<br>
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<div>
<div>Hi,<br>
<br>
</div>
I need help again to
be able to reflash
my BIOS. The reason
is that my computer
is having trouble
reading my drives,
CDs, or USBs. I
know this is the
case with the
desktop because it
works fine in my
laptop. I have
tried to reset the
BIOS and thought at
first to reinstall
GRUB. Nothing is
working but my HDD
does show it does
have a OS on it.<br>
<br>
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i already downloaded
the BIOS version from
HP but it is an exe
file. Could anyone
help me to see how I
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