I have an HP DV8000 laptop with the latest bios update available. I have the BIOS configured to boot from USB first, CD-ROM second, and the harddrive last. My Linux USB stick boots on my other systems, so I know the stick is bootable. But no matter what I try, I can't get t to work. (I rather boot via USB than waste discs on testing distros)
I can't find any proper documentation on the laptop to see wether it officially supports booting from USB or not. I even tried booting from the SD card reader, but no luck there either.
Can anyone help me? :frown:
My BIOS will only read from one of the several USB flash drives I have (regardless of filesystem) so it might just be picky like that.
[QUOTE=Darkimmortal;22407719]My BIOS will only read from one of the several USB flash drives I have (regardless of filesystem) so it might just be picky like that.[/QUOTE]
Okay, well all my USB drives are formatted as FAT32, and I have the "Bootable" flag checked in gParted. I use Unetbootin to put the distro onto the drives... so maybe I'll install the same distro to every USB drive I have and just try them all.
My HP never boots from USB properly. Instead of setting the boot order, use the boot menu (F8 on mine) to select the drive.
Even when I try the boot menu after POST, i select the device, and the laptop ignores my selection, and goes to the cd-rom and hdd. It's pissing me off. My other HP boots just fine, so I don't understand...
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