HP Pavilion 590-p0057c Ubuntu server press F9 to boot

[vdavid23]

Please don't tell me that this is not a supported question in the forum because I did buy a HP system and did not buy this from Microsoft. I think it is sad that I now discover that this desktop PC is locked down for Windows only. I remember a day when I could load any OS on any PC bought from HP and now I cannot do this anymore. Now I have to research which models I can do this with before purchase. Shame on you for not supporting or giving options to people and forcing them to use Windows when maybe people want to use their computer for other things. I have read other people's posts and they are experiencing the same issue. When you turn off secure boot I can install Ubuntu but now I have the issue that when I reboot the Ubuntu server I have to power down the computer and repower it on to get Ubuntu to load.

If i want to use this desktop unit as a company Linux server this should be my option. I should not be forced to buy another computer when I have a perfectly good computer to use for my office which I was not using. I would like to know if there is  some generic bios I can flash this system with or a detailed method to getting this system to work with other OS's. It was your companies choice to make negociations (for whatever reason) to lock your computers down to work with specific Microsoft, but don't force your loyal customers who have supported your company for years to be forced to accept this. I will go back to building my own PC's again from the motherboard up if this is where your company is going. I as a consumer should have this right to buy a PC and load any OS on my PC and also have the equipment supported like it was in the past. 

So if I choose to install Linux now does this void my warranty?

Do I have any say in the matter anymore and now do I have to research all PC's sold through HP, Dell and Acer. This sounds like a monopoly and the last place I expected to be told what OS I am required to run would be the PC manufactures.

This is what makes the market strong, the ability to have free choice and choice of OS, whether is be Apple, Linux or Windows I still feel that it never should be the responsibility of the hardware manufactures to tell people what OS they need to run on their equipment. 

I feel the equipment I bought is still through HP and not Microsoft and I will not go to Microsoft to have this question answered. I want to know how I can keep this newly built Ubuntu server (which I am proud to say is Linux) to boot without me having to hit F9 or power off and on to get the server to boot.

As I said, I read through all the posts on this site and I expect HP to support this equipment, I would not be here asking this question if I had known before buying it that I was being forced to use Windows only with this hardware and it is my fault to have assumed that I could still install any OS I wanted on this desktop like I was allowed to do in the past with other HP systems I have bought in the past.

[Lil_Boy_Blue]

Hi

Errr would you like some help?

I can boot W10 (default in the OpenSuSE Secure boot option) or choose OpenSuSE Secure.

However Debian and Lubuntu are not secure boot and I use the F9 option to select their grub bootloader.

Therefore I suspect that if you chose to install the Secure Boot option and put the GrUB Secure Boot Loader at the top of the list you may get the desired result.

By-the-way currently MS tech's can't get W10 1803 to upgrade to 1903 on one of my desktops (and neither can I) because the install DVD does not contain the DVD driver or the HDD driver even though it boots from one and recognises C: on the other.

[vdavid23]

Sounds like you are having the same issue I am. I did move the OS in the boot manager in the bios and I still have to power down and power back up the server, I cannot sent a reboot command remotely to the server and just have it reboot like all the other HP systems. It looks like the BIOS is locked down for Windows only.