Re: Installing Linux on the HP ProBook

Daniel Jitnah <djitnah@greenwareit.com.au> wrote:

IF it was my machine it would never have booted into win7 and it would be all Linux from day 0. You get the feeling its specifically configured with 4 partitions so as to make Linux install difficult.

There used to be a practice, as I recall, of implementing part of what's usually in the BIOS in software stored in one of the partitions of a laptop's hard drive. I'm hoping those days are long gone and that if you destroyed all of the supplied partitions on one of these machines and installed Linux, it would boot reliably.