Hi I've a very old HP but doesn't one of the function keys give you a boot option. Mind you I've one win laptop and everything else is centos and kubuntu but HP used to be very static in boot options. Sent from my iPhone > On 10 Mar 2016, at 12:32, [log in to unmask] wrote: > > I'm away from home at the moment, and having some problems with a > laptop. It's an HP Pavilion "Model 818", purchased from Best Buy in > December. > At the end of February, HP's "Support Assistant" program notified me > to download and install half a dozen updates. I did -- and wireless > hasn't worked since. The desktop shortcut I set up to allow easy > enabling/disabling of Wifi now just tells me "Wi-Fi could not be found." > I had a chance to hook it to a wired network and do a fresh download > and install of the drivers for the Wifi adapter, but that hasn't made > any difference. > The machine has a 1 TB hard drive, which I've partitioned intending to > dual-boot to Ubuntu Linux. All that's stopping me is that I can't get > it to boot from the install CD. I believe I set all the BIOS options to > enable booting from the CD drive, but it doesn't, and now pressing F2 > while booting takes me to a set of hardware diagnostics (I believe one o > those HP updates installed them), all of which pass, but that means I > don't even get to the BIOS settings to check that I enabled them. > In theory, Best Buy's Geek Squad should help me, but I'm in Canada for > a bit and I don't know if they even have stores anywhere near me... > Anyone got a constructive suggestion on either issue? T laptop came > with 64-bit Windows 10 home, so fr now that's the OS I've got access > to... > > David Gillett CISSP CCNP > > PCSOFT's List Owners: > Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> > Mark Rode<[log in to unmask]> PCSOFT's List Owners: Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> Mark Rode<[log in to unmask]>