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Problem description: As I have a couple times before, I'm using an 8GB USB Flash drive to install a linux distro, Pop!_OS onto an HP Elitebook 840 that I bought off someone. It goofed on a system update, but I had nothing on it to save, so I decided to install again. I picked every option I could to delete and clean everything off. The installation detects it, seems to run without errors, and when prompted to shut down, I do so and remove the flash drive, it pops up first "Initializing and establishing link...[PXE-E61] Media Test Failure". The next screen will come up: "BootDevice Not Found. Please install an operating system on your hard disk. Hard Disk - 3F0" Attempted fixes: I've made sure nothing is plugged into the device. Every time it boots up, it tries to do HP System Diagnostics. I've done the Memory test and Hard Drive Test - both Quick and Extensive. It passes. Everything mentioning the latter 2 error messages (PXE-E61 and "Hard Disk - 3F0") involves all manner of steps, including:
And probably some others that I'm forgetting in my mild stress. Everything I've done brings that up...except when I have the USB in the laptop and choose it in the boot selection. The installer comes up, and I'm able to select the drive to do a clean install. Hell, within the past hour, I took this picture:  This thing seems to detect my hard drive. Not certain why this is having an issue. The only thing I haven't done is reseating the hard drive itself, since I'm confident it's detected. Recent changes: Not to this one in particular other than an attempted reinstall, which I've done before successfully. -- Operating system: Pop!_OS but I'm not married to this distro. System specs: HP Elitebook 840, 8GB RAM, 500 GB HDD Location: USA I have Googled and read the FAQ: Yes Morter fucked around with this message at 15:26 on Feb 10, 2020 |
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