Re: how to boot from USB on an HP EliteBook

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On Wed, 2025-05-14 at 00:07 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> I finally found this:
> http://www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c05166986.pdf
> Still do not know what to do.
> Cannot get either F38 or F42 to boot.
> Legacy Boot Order was grayed out until I found
> Secure Boot Disable/Legacy Boot Enable.
> I think it tried to boot F38.
> A message told me to press escape to (I forget).
> Pressing escape got me a grub prompt.
> I tried boot.
> Got told to load the kernel first.
> I tried reboot.
> Got the F39 on the internal drive.
> 
> Booting from USB is hardly a rare thing to want to do.
> If allowed, it should be easy.

If you do some kind of legacy boot, the install is probably going be
done in an old way, and require to be legacy boot, too.

And asking the obvious question:  Have you tried different USB ports on
the computer?  Some may not be an option for booting from.




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