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Old 07-24-2016, 09:14 AM   #1
Mladen1989
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Cant boot any other OS except already existing Linux MATE 1.8.2.


Hello everybody.
My laptop wont boot any other system except one that is already installed MATE 1.8.2. I bought my HP laptop 2 years ago when i was i USA. It had installed Windows 8.1 on it, but due to many problems that i had whit this sloppy OS and my former Windows i decided to go for Linux. Since i had a laptop i decided to install some lite OS and i start searching on internet for a such one. I downloaded a few ones i dont remember which ones and MATE among them. A lot of them just didnt work well on my laptop, i dont know why. On one of them i couldnt use wireless on another i couldnt use thouchpad and so so on. One that work best was MATE, at least for a few mounths, and then problems started. First my thouchpad died and i bought a mouse, then i wonted to install a windows along side Linux and i couldnt. I tried several Windows OS, burned a ISO file but when i insert a disc in my CD reader nothing happens, it does not boot it. So i was thinking i did something wrong with burning it in Iso file, so i tried a few diffrent Iso burning programs and nothing. It was all the same, nothing. I even tried my MATE Iso cd and now not even this cd is bootable. Then i decided to install a virtual box machine so i could run other Os on my laptop, but it reports some mistake and it wont work. So anybody knows what is going on? I think it is some problem with my motherboard or Bios or something like that....
 
Old 07-24-2016, 07:47 PM   #2
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Can you post the model of your HP laptop? What works well with one model may not work at all with a different model. For example, many linux distributions do not come standard with drivers for Broadcom wireless devices. The right driver must be added specially. I had that problem with my 7 year old HP laptop. It works fine now, but it took some research on the web to figure out the problem.

We need to know what your operating system is. It could be LinuxMint, PCLinuxOS, Slackware, Debian or any of dozens of other Linux distributions. MATE is a desktop environment, not the operating system. MATE is available with many Linux distributions. The OS may say what it is during bootup. If not, I am sure that there is a way to do it. But I'm on a public windows computer right now, and I can't remember how to do it. It might be written on the CD that has the Linux iso. That would be the simplest way.

I am guessing that your laptop is not set to boot directly from a DVD drive. When first booting up, the screen should have a message that identifies the key needed to access the boot menu. It might be the F2 key, F12, ESCAPE, DELETE, or some other key. The message may be center bottom of the screen or top left or top right or some other place on the screen. And generally that screen changes after a couple of seconds, so you have to be watching for it. It took me something like 10 boots before I could read the message. Once you press the right key, the boot menu should let you choose between the hard drive, an external drive, and the CD drive.

I have no idea what the touchpad's problem is. I'm not very good with hardware.

The only way I know to put a Linux OS and a windows OS on the same computer is to wipe the drive clean and install the windows OS. Then the Linux OS can be added. Putting windows on second is practically imposible. So it's just as well your laptop did not boot from the DVD drive.

So, let's get the computer model and the identity of the Linux distribution on that HP. But backup your data before doing anything else.
 
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