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‎02-12-2021 07:33 PM

HP Recommended
Product: Envy x360
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Trying to install Ubuntu and setup dual boot on my new HP laptop but I can't get the bootloader stuff working.  I have followed many guides and for some reason my laptop doesn't work like everybody else's...

 

My new Envy x360 laptop came with Windows 10 installed.  I downloaded the ubuntu 18.04 iso (AMD64) and burned it to a USB drive using the Rufus tool, ensuring it was configured with GPT so I thought the USB stick should boot in UEFI mode.  The bios has no settings for "legacy mode" or anything like that so apparently that's all automatic now and my USB drive boots in EFI mode?  I disabled Secure Boot in the BIOS per multiple recommendations.  The USB stick boots and from the Linux installer I chose the "Something else" option for partitioning, created three new partitions in unallocated disk space: 1) 32GB ext4 mounted at "/" for root, 2) 24GB Swap Space, 3) 77GB ext4 mounted at "/home".  I'm confused by the option about where to install bootloader as multiple people said it is irrelevant to UEFI boot modes.  Regardless, I have tried the default setting and I have tried directing the bootloader to be installed to my 272MB EFI partition (which already existed because of Windows 10 I assume).

 

But there is just no way to get it to boot into Ubuntu.  If I press F9 at boot, I do get an option to "boot from EFI file", but none of the .efi files I can find there will work.

 

What could I be missing?

 

 

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‎02-13-2021 10:11 AM

HP Recommended

@404ClickBait 

I'm sorry, but HP only warranties their PCs for usage with the OS that comes preinstalled.

IF you replace that with a Linux distro, or add a Linux distro, then you assume full responsibility for maintaining that -- including solving any problems with booting the other OS and/or installing the other OS.

Modern PCs with UEFI, instead of the older BIOS, are especially difficult to install because you have to go into the UEFI settings and make several changes before you can even boot from a USB stick -- and we are unable to assist in that work.

Your best bet for support now is to contact the support forum of the distro you are using.

Since you are using Ubuntu, go here: https://ubuntuforums.org/

Good Luck



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