If you do not have the hard drive plugged in can you boot to your DVD? In other words can you boot up, say with Knoppix or equivalent? On 12/17/2014 12:05 PM, Stephen M wrote: > Plus rufus doesn't see my USB drive when my laptop does. As for > trying to open an EFI shell, thats not happening. > > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Stephen Partington > > wrote: > > Nevermind missed that this was post dban. > > On Dec 17, 2014 11:58 AM, "Stephen Partington" > > wrote: > > Well that's strange. We're there any recent changes? > > On Dec 17, 2014 11:26 AM, "Stephen M" > wrote: > > 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. > 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. > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Stephen Partington > > wrote: > > 2 thoughts, > > 1 - Does the bios see the drive physically? > > 2 - you will need a boot disk (freeDOS or something > similar) to run the executable. or a windows environment. > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Michael Butash > > wrote: > > 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. > > 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? > > 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. > > -mb > > > > On 12/17/2014 11:03 AM, Stephen M wrote: >> Hi, >> >> 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. >> >> i already downloaded the BIOS version from HP but >> it is an exe file. Could anyone help me to see >> how I can fix this problem? >> >> -- >> Stephen Melheim >> 602-400-7707 >> SMelheim85@gmail.com >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list -PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail > settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will > prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep > after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail > settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > Stephen Melheim > 602-400-7707 > SMelheim85@gmail.com > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > Stephen Melheim > 602-400-7707 > SMelheim85@gmail.com > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss