Last week I bought a cheap HP ProBook x360 from a guy on Craigslist because I wanted a Linux laptop. I had planned to wipe out the entire drive and...
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An update that this guide also works with Ubuntu 20.04. The only caveat is that after the installation of the OS fails on the grub install, you must restart the OS to the USB's try Ubuntu and only then use the boot-repair.
I'm sure this comment is gonna save me and others some serious debugging. Thank you!
I tried this but I get an error that NVRam is locked on mine
What version of Ubuntu are you trying to install?
Confirmed for Ubuntu 22.10. You really saved me a lot of work with this one, thanks a lot. It was Gen1 for education.
I'm glad it helped!
I recently installed Pop_OS! onto this same computer. The steps in this post didn't quite work for me with Pop, but I wrote a post about how I managed to get Pop installed. Check if out if you're a Pop fan.
Hi Tyler, thanks for the helpful guide. I can confirm that the above works with Ubuntu 19.10 as well. It does NOT work on 18.04. Cheers!
Good to know: I've been thinking about nuking and paving my ProBook but wasn't sure if it would work with a newer Ubuntu. I've heard that Gnome shell got faster and I want to check that out. Thanks for the feedback!
When i select the recommended repair option,
I keep getting “/target detected.Please close the ubuntu installer, then try again”
I'm not sure how helpful I can be because I don't have access to my HP ProBook anymore, but maybe someone will land here in the future and can help you.
What version of Ubuntu were you trying to install?
It was Ubuntu 20.04.
But i had to revert back to windows
Hi Tyler, what generation of Probook x360 11 was it? Was it a commercial Education Edition? And did the Linux OS support the 2nd (worldfacing) webcam if there was any in the keyboard? Txs Martin
Not sure unfortunately: the computer isn't easily accessible to me at the moment 🙁