On Sun 13 Nov 2016 11:31:27 AM CST, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 11/8/2016 7:09 PM, Malcolm wrote:
Hi If you press the F9 key, do you see something like "OS boot Manager"?
I tried out the g6, UEFI though, it adds the HDD boot order back, so if wanting single boot would need to create a systemd service to reset the boot order with efibootmgr -n NNNN to it's entry would overcome this.
Yes, I tried enabling UEFI and get a big WARNING, UEFI is provided as experimental only and not recommended.
(this laptop is circa 2011-2012 and the UEFI implementation by HP, was experimental only and disabled by default)
Enabling UEFI and creating the fat32 partition and systemd service results in a blinking underline in the middle of the screen and then ... 'nothing' (windows won't even boot with UEFI enabled)
The only thing that I'm reading that makes sense, is that despite having UEFI disabled, HP embedded/hardcoded the path the bootmgr.exe in the firmware, which the firmware uses in some way as part of its boot scheme.
The frustrating part, is I can boot syslinux from the iso just fine and then load grub flawlessly. (even the 1600x900-32 vesafb mode is set correctly despite using the Nvidia proprietary drivers.)
Oh, well, I'm going to keep working on it. Currently I have the windows SSD drive in bay 1, the 1T platter drive in bay 2, and since I have to set the clock anyway between Win and Linux boots (I'm not hacking the Win10 registry to put the UTC cludge in), I just pop an iso in the USB port and boot with the iso, then boot the Linux install as 'hd2 0'. (which loads grub2 from the MBR just fine)
My goal is to remove the windows drive altogether, and virtualize windows (I have hardware support in the CPU), but that will have to wait until the boot issue is solved.
Hi You would need to install Windows in UEFI mode... download the latest build and do a test install? Grab your product key via ProduKey, I dump the folder on my windows install USB devices, I also remove the ei.cfg file to allow any win version to install. I use the RealTimeIsUniversal hack, works fine... No CSM mode to UEFI boot, or just UEFI and Legacy? Disable fastboot as well if there is a BIOS option. -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE Leap 42.1|GNOME 3.16.2|4.1.34-33-default up 1 day 2:34, 3 users, load average: 2.49, 2.37, 2.18 CPU AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 635 @ 2.90GHz | GPU Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org