HP Probook 6475b doesn’t seem to recognise Mint 22

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Because I was having problems with a Microsoft Surface Pro where I had set out to replace Windows 8 Pro with Mint 22 . I switched my attention temporarily to trying to mount it on an HP ProBook6475b - 4GB ram ,500 GB. Hard disk.

This device had Windows and Ubuntu 18 which I had put on some time ago when I first thought of switching to Linux .

I downloaded Mint and loaded the ISO file on to USB stick using Rufus
Plugged in USB and spent a few hours dabbling with Mint 22 .

Pleased with what I saw I hit the install button and the machine ran through the loading process seemingly faultlessly at the end of which it said take out USB and reboot .Did so looking forward to at last getting into use what Mint clearly had to offer only to get after rebooting the message on screen
“ Boot Device not found
Please install an operating system on your hard disk
Hard Disk - (3F0)
F2 System Diagnostics
For more information please visit www.hp.com\go\techcenter\startup
Ran the HP system diagnostics which checked out as no problem with HD . Tried again to reboot and got exactly same message .

When mounting Mint I had selected the option to erase and replace with the Mint installation.

Any help gratefully received .

Meanwhile without great expectation of solving this problem I will go to the HP link provided

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Similar, but a while ago i had that when trying mint on aspire laptop. Did all sorts unsuccessfully, then tried manjaro and installer went straight through

Dont know why, but it worked

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If it ran Ubuntu before then the computer is capable of mint. Also if you ran the booted usb then again all fine.

I suspect the problem was during the installation.

Please can you try again and note when installing that it chooses the hard drive correctly

I had a similar issue with a hp laptop a few weeks back and it was the secure boot causing the issue had to go into the bios to stop that.

There were reports of issues with the new mint cinnamon so I now use LMDE and that is fine. But not sure what causes the problem

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I agree with @callpaul.eu .
@davg … when you retry, can you carefully note what you told it about where to install grub.
and
as Paul says, which disk did it install Mint on?
and
are you using legacy boot or UEFI… what is your bios set to ? That setting will control how it installs grub during thd install process.

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Heyy listen!

I have a HP machine and I get this error everytime I install a new os.

U just need to ignore the error.
When it says boot device not found. Just do Exit/Escape or whatever and just come out of the hp screens. The machine will give u 3-4 beeps. Then your device will automatically boot the right way.

I really dont know why these HP machines have this problem.

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Hi Hrishikesh,
As a curiosity: don’t you have fastboot on in the bios?

Jorge

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Need to check :sweat_smile:

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Thanks Hrishi.

That was my first thought. Tried that but unfortunately each time just comes up with exactly the same message from HP :flushed:

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Can u send a pic of the screen pls?

Also, Have you turned off secure boot?

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You dont always get that chance to ignore

Really needs solving

I would also look at fastboot as jorge suggested

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Yeahh, it is on. Just checked it. Should I turn it off?

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Thanks, would’ve never checked that if I didn’t take part in this discussion

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Hi Hrishikesh,
Yes.
After, save changes and do power off.
Remove power cable, wait ± 30 seconds, reinstall power cable a do power on.
Check that the computer starts correctly

Jorge

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@davg Can you check this out once?

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Operating-System-and-Recovery/Operating-system-not-recoginsed/td-p/7054345

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Just out of curiosity, what benefits will I get after doing this except the Hp screen after install?

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As far as I know, it’s used in Windows to shorten the boot time, but it causes problems with Linux.
I can’t tell you exactly what this setting is, I’ll have to study it

Jorge

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Sure.
Thanks!

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Hrishikesh,
After changing fastboot to off, does your PC boot correctly?

Jorge

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Didn’t do it yet :sweat_smile:

Actually doing some study work so will try afterwards

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Suspect I might end up doing something similar but hope not

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