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 <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:Nevermind missed that this was post dban.
On Dec 17, 2014 11:58 AM, "Stephen Partington" <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:
Well that's strange. We're there any recent changes?
On Dec 17, 2014 11:26 AM, "Stephen M" <smelheim85@gmail.com> 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 <cryptworks@gmail.com> 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 <michael@butash.net> 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:
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?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.
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