On 7/22/24 09:22, Jan Stary wrote:
I am trying to boot current/amd64 on this HP laptop from USB stick.Disabling the "secure boot" in BIOS, so that something else than the preinstalled windows is even allowed to boot, and choosing USB Flash Disk as the boot source, I see the usual Using drive 0, partition 3 etc, up to boot> There, the rotating slash either stops and nothing else happens, or the machine reboots after the first number in booting hd0a:/bsd 12345678 + [reboot] This happens with both bsd and bsd.rd. The USB stick holds a full current/amd64 installation which I regularly boot on various amd64 machines, so I don;t suppose that is the problem. Any clues please? Jan
Have you tried UEFI and "Legacy" modes? I've seen some machines that like one over the other. But yes, HPs are weird. Some work great, others are horribly non-standard, "Works with windows, ship it!". Nick.
