Elitebook 840 G2 can't boot Legacy Linux HDD

[kazakore]

I gave the answer in the message above.

Does the G1 have a boot option in its BIOS called Custom Boot or similar. Add the path there you are using to get to grubx64 and make it top of the boot order (or at least above the hard drive.) Take note that the BIOS will likely assume your keyboard layout is USA so if not bear this in mind when typing in the path.

If the G1 doesn't have a Custom Boot option I don't know what you would do.

HP should really fix this, they are about the only people who have a faulty bootloader like this, it affects pretty much all their laptops, even ones like these which are supposedly Ubuntu Certified. It's quite ridiculous really!

[RobZ_inT]

kazakore- Thanks for replying. I tried the custom boot option and made it first in the order, but I'm still gtting a ridculously long sequence of selections at a boot GUI before Linux loads.

It appears to ignore the custom path and requires me to specify a path through the selections.  I'm also puzzled by the number of boot files that are shown on the boot repair report (link in previous post) and on the final BIOS GUI (#5).

[kazakore]

Sorry I didn't see your reply until not that you're stil lhaving issues. I hope you solved it. If not.

I believe the custom boot line should be:

\efi\ubuntu\grubx64.efi

Please take not of the direction of the slashes and that keyboard input in BIOS uses US layout so the key may not be that which is marked on your computer (that is what tricked me for a while.)

I'm afraid if that doesn't work I really don't know....