Latest bios for Pavilion 17 e027sf

[dbro14210]

Hello,

I'm looking for the latest BIOS for Pavilion 17-e027sf-E5U55EA

Best regards

[tk_srq · Accepted solution]

@dbro14210,

The latest BIOS file for your model (AMD) is v. F.39 and can be downloaded from the link below.

 https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp79501-80000/sp79620.exe

Readme file for F.39:

https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp79501-80000/sp79620.html

[dbro14210]

Great. Thank you very much.
Unfortunately, I was really counting on this update to allow me to add a new boot entry (Win10/Kubuntu dual boot), but that didn’t happen.
I’ve solved the problem another way by editing GRUB, to avoid having to press the F9 key every time I boot up.

[tk_srq]

You are welcome.

A person posted here a while ago asking how to make Ubuntu a default boot OS. He used Windows bcdedit command to boot the system from Ubuntu instead of Windows, but it wasn't successful.

Just curious to know how you edit GRUB to boot from Kbuntu automatically. If you referred to any article, can you show me the link? I never had a Linux but am just curious to know how grub bootloader is modified. Thanks. 

[dbro14210]

On Kubuntu, in the /boot/efi partition:

1. In the /EFI/Microsoft/Boot folder, I renamed “bootmgfw.efi” to “bootmgfw1.efi”

2. I then copied the file “grubx64.efi” from the /EFI/ubuntu folder and pasted it into the /EFI/Microsoft/Boot folder, renaming it to “bootmgfw.efi”

3. Next, in /etc/grub.d, I edited the “40_custom” file to “25_custom” with:

3.1 menuentry “Windows Boot Manager (on /dev/sda2)”

3.2 chainloader /EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw1.efi, which points to the renamed Windows bootloader

(see https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/tutoriel/grub2_parametrage_manuel for more french information)

4. and finally the command “sudo update-grub” to ensure the change is applied.

At boot, the HP machine thinks it is booting into Windows and displays GRUB, where you can choose between Kubuntu and Windows.

It’s not straightforward, but it works and we’ve managed to bypass the F9 key at boot.