Possible to install bootable linux on zBook G4 ?

[goodbotz]

I'd like to install a bootable instance of the latest production Fedora Desktop ("WS27").  Unlike other HP notebooks I've owned in the past, I'm having trouble attempting to do this install on this platform.  I boot to a usb resident image (where the WS27 "Live" instance offers a script to build and install a bootable image on any accessible disk/partition)... On one release ("WS27"), I get to the Fedora desktop, but when I execute the partition-install script, the screen freezes (my maximum patience sitting in front of these repeated freeze at this same point is 15 minutes).  On a follow-on release ("WS28-beta"), I'm getting frozen in the Live gui at almost the same point - trying to kick-off the install-to-partition routine.

Any ideas?

[CF4]

Hi

Is there any possibilty of there being BitLocker on the PC?

And I take it that you got it from... https://getfedora.org/en_GB/workstation/download/

Running Fedora Workstation

To run Fedora Workstation, you will need:

• Fedora Media Writer (download Link)
• A USB Flash drive with at least 1.5 GB space available

Fedora Workstation is provided via Fedora Media Writer. Download this program via the download link above and run it on your system, following the prompts to generate a live version (see 'What does "Live" mean?' to the right) of Fedora Workstation on a USB flash drive.  You may then run the live version of Fedora Workstation from your USB flash drive.

Optionally, you may install Fedora Workstation to a laptop or desktop computer that has at least 1 GHz processor, 1 GB RAM, and 10 GB space available. To do this, run the live version of Fedora Workstation from your USB flash drive on the computer you'd like to install to, run the Fedora Media Writer application, and follow the on-screen prompts to complete installation.

The writer creates a USB to install with, so you use W10 or iOS or whatever to make it.

Sizewise the download is circa 23 Mb, and the full .iso is 1.6 GB.

https://getfedora.org/fmw/FedoraMediaWriter-win32-4.1.0.exe

https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/27/Workstation/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Workst...

What process method have you chosen?

[goodbotz]

Bitlocker?  Isn't this an HDD encryption scheme running within the Win10 OS (background) sys utils space? As I'm fresh booting here (holding down the power and mute buttons simultaneously for 20 seconds to restart), there's no WinOS present in my booted environment.

All the other stuff you copied over from getfedora is understood... I'm booting via a USB3 key inserted into one of the two available USB 3 ports on my zBook.

Since I'm getting to the initial gui desktop screen in Fedora WorkStation, and it freezes once I move the mouse over one of the overlay windows on the desktop (in this case, the overlay window offering the "Install Fedora To My Hard Drive" option).  

I'm thinking I'm experiencing an incompatibility between the Fedora software and my CPU's default clean boot-up config.

I'll next start looking around among the bios options related to any cpu config options I can change.  Maybe something related to video acceration, or caching or something...

[CF4]

Hi

BitLocker is a BIOS resident piece of code.

Usually a good distro lets you amend the install options and select no-acpi  or no-modeset to go with a basic VESA setting that hopefully is common th both parties.

Use the Port Side Port, LH side USB.