02-08-2024, 08:37 AM
The manual recommends UEFI mode enabled with Secure Boot off before installing. As you've found, you can't switch after installation. If you didn't try setting UEFI as the boot system before installing Linux, try it and let us know what happens.
There are 19 (out of 89,000) records in the Linux Lite database which match "HP ProBook 6560b" so some people appear to have got your model working with Linux Lite - we can't tell if they used BIOS or UEFI mode.
BIOS mode should work and if you want to try debugging the installation, the symptoms you have suggest either something is wrong in the BIOS which stops the system seeing the disk or something went wrong with the installation which makes the disk unbootable. If you followed the 'Erase Disk' option then the system really should have made the disk bootable.
There are a number of reports on this forum with problems installng on older HP Probooks.
Some of these reports suggest that there may be an inherent problem.
This report is a close match to your symptoms (on an HP4510s) and is recent. The poster appears to have abandoned trying to fix it.
https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/insta.../#msg61194
This report may be similar to your symptoms but doesn't really finish.
https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/insta.../#msg61429
You may be missing something in the BIOS. Unfortunately without the same hardware as you have it is difficult to provide specific help. Maybe someone who has installed on a 6560b can help.
Assuming the BIOS is 100% correct but still has the "BootDevice Not Found" condition, booting the live USB and then using that platform to examine the installed system may help finding what is making it unbootable. This might get quite complex as the 'Erase Disk' option is usually straight forward.
There are 19 (out of 89,000) records in the Linux Lite database which match "HP ProBook 6560b" so some people appear to have got your model working with Linux Lite - we can't tell if they used BIOS or UEFI mode.
BIOS mode should work and if you want to try debugging the installation, the symptoms you have suggest either something is wrong in the BIOS which stops the system seeing the disk or something went wrong with the installation which makes the disk unbootable. If you followed the 'Erase Disk' option then the system really should have made the disk bootable.
There are a number of reports on this forum with problems installng on older HP Probooks.
Some of these reports suggest that there may be an inherent problem.
This report is a close match to your symptoms (on an HP4510s) and is recent. The poster appears to have abandoned trying to fix it.
https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/insta.../#msg61194
This report may be similar to your symptoms but doesn't really finish.
https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/insta.../#msg61429
You may be missing something in the BIOS. Unfortunately without the same hardware as you have it is difficult to provide specific help. Maybe someone who has installed on a 6560b can help.
Assuming the BIOS is 100% correct but still has the "BootDevice Not Found" condition, booting the live USB and then using that platform to examine the installed system may help finding what is making it unbootable. This might get quite complex as the 'Erase Disk' option is usually straight forward.
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