[PLUG] Installing linux on HP laptop

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2025, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

> I just realized your problem probably is getting the thing to boot off the
> stick in the first place.  That's a chicken-and-egg problem because you have
> to boot from a stick so that the existing disk is not active in order to zap
> it

Ted,

I changed the boot order but it's ignoring that.

> If the turning off uefi boot does not work in bios then if it's running
> win10 and you can login to it, hold down shift and click restart that will
> get you into windows recovery and you might be able to select the boot
> stick from there.

It runs win11, apparently.

> In worst case pull the disk, put it in a dock, and wipe it then reinsert it.
> Once the bios sees no bootable anything on the disk it will fall through to
> the next bootable thing, the usb stick.

This is a _very_ thin laptop with two small screws on the bottom. Much
different from any portable I've worked on before. Closed, from table to top
of the cover it's 1". I suspect the storage is on a chip, not an SSD and
certainly not a HD.

Thanks,

Rich