F9 eh? I never thought about that one. What's the issue you are having installing Slack?
Ted -----Original Message----- From: PLUG <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Rich Shepard Sent: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 7:55 AM To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Installing linux on HP laptop On Tue, 1 Apr 2025, wes wrote: > I am not able to find any info on this model using this model number. > also, this does not follow the pattern of HP model numbers I'm used to > seeing, so I wonder if there could be a different model number on > there somewhere. Wes, This laptop has no lable on it. On the shipping label I found the serial and product numbers. On an HP web page I needed to enter both numbers and that linked to a page with the model #14-dq0803ds. > based on your later posts, I suspect that what you need is the "boot menu" > key rather than changing the boot order in bios. HP has never been > particularly consistent with their option keys at boot time (as > opposed to dell, where the bios key has mostly been f2 from day one, > and once they started having boot menus, it's mostly been f12 since > day one). HP seems to be a fan of using the escape key during boot to > present an overall boot options menu, that may be worth a try. While F10 allowed me to change the boot order, I needed to use F9 to make the system accept the new order. Shrug. Now the USB flash drive boots, but there's an issue installing the OS. Working on that. Thanks, Rich
