12-21-2023, 09:22 AM
So I'm getting somewhere! :fingerscrossed
Last night I did what Steve suggested and changed to UEFI native, however it still didn't boot in to the LL OS that I KNOW is on the SSD (I think it's an SSD). All it produced was a intermittent flashing blue circle with the HP logo and despite waiting it out nothing else occurred so I turned the laptop off.
This morning I went directly into BIOS with the intent to change it back to legacy, however decided to try other options. So I only started to take photos towards the end where I knew I wouldn't be able to recall my steps:
I tried Network boot, but it said I needed to choose something. I forget what the next screen was, but I clicked on something that seemed to make sense and worked through the various screens. Here are pics of the last three screens which I chose and lo-and-behold after I saved and exited from the last screen LL 6.6 BOOTED UP as usual :bow
here's a link to what these last three screen shots showed I did:
https://imgur.com/a/kKuqvxd
So I'm 99% confident I will remember what to do thus I am currently updating LL 6.6 then my plan is to:
1) shut it down per the menu.
2) turn it back on and wait to see if LL 6.6 loads normally.
3) if it doesn't then I will turn it off and restart it going directly into BIOS and then go through the SAME steps with the ADDITION of taking pics from the beginning.
So, I did the above steps I planned to do and LL 6.6 didn't pull up. What I got was the flashing blue HP circle logo whereby I pressed ESC to get into bios. I then took pics of the following choices I did:
1) At first I tried F12 network boot and got Boot error message.
2) I returned to the BIOS options and chose F9 Boot Device Options.
3) I selected Boot from EFI File.
4) I selected the only file system showing (Thank GOD there was only one!).
5) I clicked on EFI.
6) Clicked on ubuntu.
7) Clicked on grubx64.efi
then TA-DA LL 6.6 booted up.
Here are the screen shots:
https://imgur.com/a/J1HPlHM
So my follow up question is:
Does anyone know what I need to tweak such that LL 6.6 loads properly as I'd prefer that a student doesn't have to go through all these steps each time they turn on the laptop..?
Last night I did what Steve suggested and changed to UEFI native, however it still didn't boot in to the LL OS that I KNOW is on the SSD (I think it's an SSD). All it produced was a intermittent flashing blue circle with the HP logo and despite waiting it out nothing else occurred so I turned the laptop off.
This morning I went directly into BIOS with the intent to change it back to legacy, however decided to try other options. So I only started to take photos towards the end where I knew I wouldn't be able to recall my steps:
I tried Network boot, but it said I needed to choose something. I forget what the next screen was, but I clicked on something that seemed to make sense and worked through the various screens. Here are pics of the last three screens which I chose and lo-and-behold after I saved and exited from the last screen LL 6.6 BOOTED UP as usual :bow
here's a link to what these last three screen shots showed I did:
https://imgur.com/a/kKuqvxd
So I'm 99% confident I will remember what to do thus I am currently updating LL 6.6 then my plan is to:
1) shut it down per the menu.
2) turn it back on and wait to see if LL 6.6 loads normally.
3) if it doesn't then I will turn it off and restart it going directly into BIOS and then go through the SAME steps with the ADDITION of taking pics from the beginning.
So, I did the above steps I planned to do and LL 6.6 didn't pull up. What I got was the flashing blue HP circle logo whereby I pressed ESC to get into bios. I then took pics of the following choices I did:
1) At first I tried F12 network boot and got Boot error message.
2) I returned to the BIOS options and chose F9 Boot Device Options.
3) I selected Boot from EFI File.
4) I selected the only file system showing (Thank GOD there was only one!).
5) I clicked on EFI.
6) Clicked on ubuntu.
7) Clicked on grubx64.efi
then TA-DA LL 6.6 booted up.
Here are the screen shots:
https://imgur.com/a/J1HPlHM
So my follow up question is:
Does anyone know what I need to tweak such that LL 6.6 loads properly as I'd prefer that a student doesn't have to go through all these steps each time they turn on the laptop..?