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It's an 850 G3 so the very latest model I can boot a live USB ok Trevor ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Trevor@xxxxxxxxxx > On 12 Sep 2016, at 19:11, mr meowski <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 12/09/16 17:58, Trevor Exwick wrote: >> Ladies and Gentlemen of Linux Land, >> >> I have a a laptop, brand new very nice HP Elitebook, it has 2 hard >> disks, one Hybrid 500Gb and one M.2 >> >> I set the BIOS to legacy enabled, secureboot disabled. got rid of the >> UEFI boot order. >> >> Then booted up with a UBUNTU 16.04 USB stick and wiped both drives. >> >> Then clicked "install". Set it on drive 1 (the hybrid one as the M.2 >> will not be able to boot in legacy mode) >> >> All seemed well BUT >> >> at boot up the grub screen appears, then it seems to take a long time >> and I get the black "busybox" screen and crash out the the ASH shell. >> >> Using GRUB for the advanced settings and safe mode I still get the same >> thing. >> >> I have also tried UBUNTU 14 (skinned as Bio-Linux) >> >> >> AS an alternative I reset the BIOS and >> >> I tried switching back on UEFI and reformatting, but still got errors - >> either the installer could not write GRUB correctly, or I got the same >> as above. >> >> Truth is I feel more comfortable with BIOS, but do need to embrace UEFI >> really. >> >> >> I suspect - >> >> BIOS - maybe I need to clear something or set something differently >> >> The Hybrid drive is not happy or Linux is not happy with it. >> >> >> Any ideas or pointers - thanks > > Which model Elitebook is it? They have some quirks and aren't as well > supported as the Dell Precisions but nonetheless you shouldn't be having > that much of a problem with them. > > Can you boot to live mode in either BIOS or UEFI via the 16.04 USB drive? > > Try holding left shift during boot to access the Grub2 menu, edit the > kernel stanza to remove "quiet" and Ctrl+X to boot - you'll at least get > to see the error messages on screen to tell you what went wrong. > > Cheers > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq