Bought the laptop from here when it was on sale:
It doesn't recognize the USB i have plugged in. I can try a DVD however that isn't practical for what I'm looking to do. I'm trying to add more hardware support to my custom FreeBSD install that is meant to boot from USB (you might have seen the topic for that)...
In particular, the FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE memstick image isn't recognized as bootable at all in the OS selection. It's not even listed. However I made a custom install on a different machine and wrote it to a USB while the machine did indicate the USB was recognized in the OS selection it didn't allow me to boot into it throwing an error. (will provide the error as needed).
It uses UEFI for the boot and not Legacy BIOS in case you were wondering. My Mac Mini which is also UEFI is able to recogize and boot from the USB but not the HP Notebook.
I'll provide more details as needed, and a huge thank you to everyone in this community for being such a huge help thus far. If you want special mention in the credits for helping me with my "distro" (using that term loosely) let me know how you want me to go about doing that, whether a readme, special thanks or welcome screen in the OS itself.
Samuel
It doesn't recognize the USB i have plugged in. I can try a DVD however that isn't practical for what I'm looking to do. I'm trying to add more hardware support to my custom FreeBSD install that is meant to boot from USB (you might have seen the topic for that)...
In particular, the FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE memstick image isn't recognized as bootable at all in the OS selection. It's not even listed. However I made a custom install on a different machine and wrote it to a USB while the machine did indicate the USB was recognized in the OS selection it didn't allow me to boot into it throwing an error. (will provide the error as needed).
It uses UEFI for the boot and not Legacy BIOS in case you were wondering. My Mac Mini which is also UEFI is able to recogize and boot from the USB but not the HP Notebook.
I'll provide more details as needed, and a huge thank you to everyone in this community for being such a huge help thus far. If you want special mention in the credits for helping me with my "distro" (using that term loosely) let me know how you want me to go about doing that, whether a readme, special thanks or welcome screen in the OS itself.
Samuel