Creating dual boot on HP 530 Notebook

[Tyron34]

Hello there

I want to install a second OS on my laptop (Prime OS) I partitioned the HDD and installed the OS. When installing the OS I was asked the following:

"The installer found a Windows partition on/devsda1.

Do you want to create a boot item for windws?"

Yes No

I asked the AI and it said 'you have to say yes to this'. It said 'this will create a boot of Windows so you will have the option to start both Windows and Prime OS', I said yes to the AI, but I can't start Prime OS. I can't find Prime OS in the boot manager and I can't find Prime OS in the BIOS. Help me, what should I do?

Computer: HP 530 Notebook PC(KD092AA#AB8)

Operating System: Windows 8.1 32 bit

Microprocessor Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU T2400 @ 1.83GHz

System Memory 3GB

Memory Slot 1: 2GB 7F9800000000000000000000 975MHz

Memory Slot 2: 1GB CE000000000000000000 667MHz

System Board: 30D5 KBC Version 82.15

System BIOS: 68MVU Ver. F.05 08.10.2007

BIOS Mode Legacy

Graphics Device: Mobile Intel(R) 945 Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.0)

Graphics Memory: 256 MB

Aero status Enabled

[WAWood]

My comments were written primarily for Linux installations -- but if you substitute "Prime OS' for "Linux", the comments are equally valid ...

Despite my using Linux distros on my desktop for many years. I would advise AGAINST doing that on any HP PC -- for several reasons.

First, HP provides no support for Linux, so if you run into difficulties during the install, which you WILL, you will get no assistance in those from HP.  If you replace the Window OS with a Linux distro, or add a Linux distro, then you assume full responsibility for maintaining that PC -- 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.

Second, PCs (especially laptops) use specialized drivers that only the OEM (in this case, HP) supplies.  Those drivers are usually not available in the Linux community, forcing you to use generic drivers which even if they do work, will often not provide the full functionality of the hardware.  You will then be coming back here asking for drivers, and we will then be telling you that HP does not have any Linux drivers.

Third, if your plan is to dual-boot Windows and Linux, you need to know that BOTH OSs have to in installed in the same mode. So, if you change the mode to Legacy to install Linux, then when you try to reboot into Windows, it will not boot because it has been installed in UEFI mode. If you then change back to UEFI mode, Linux will no longer boot.