[PLUG] Installing linux on HP laptop

[Tomas Kuchta]

Take it to the next plug talk for hands on help.

-T

On Mon, Mar 31, 2025, 10:03 Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> 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
>