installing fedora on HEWLETT PACKARD pavilion 500

[Angelo Moreschini]

I already had some problem to install fedora on HP pavilion 500, but at
last I was able to finish the installation.

I got the message: "installation complete" and so I did the shutdown.

The computer closed regular,
(the system is going down for power out at ...)
but when I try to open it again, I find this message on the screen:
-------------------------
boot device not found

please install an operating system on your hard disk

Hard DISK - (3F0)
F2 - System Diagnostics

for more information visit the site
http://h18021.www1.hp.com/helpandsupport/hp-self-support.html
----------------------------

The site don't explain nothing about a problem connected with linux

and after running diagnostic I get the message :
ERROR: no boot disk has been detected

For what I can understand the HP computer use UEFI (a standard firmware
interface for PCs); and this give problems to use CD live.., but I don't
know other that can give problem like the boot loader...

I would like to know how to solve this problem

thank you

Angelo

[Chris Murphy]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Angelo Moreschini
 wrote:
> I already had some problem to install fedora on HP pavilion 500, but at last
> I was able to finish the installation.
>
> I got the message: "installation complete" and so I did the shutdown.
>
> The computer closed regular,
> (the system is going down for power out at ...)
> but when I try to open it again, I find this message on the screen:
>
> boot device not found
>
> please install an operating system on your hard disk
>
> Hard DISK - (3F0)
> F2 - System Diagnostics
>
> for more information visit the site
> http://h18021.www1.hp.com/helpandsupport/hp-self-support.html
>
> The site don't explain nothing about a problem connected with linux
>
> and after running diagnostic I get the message :
> ERROR: no boot disk has been detected

Curious. This is the 3rd such report in just a couple months,
including myself. In my case it was intermittent though and Dell
support concluded either logic board or SSD flakiness; and also mine
was a dual boot scenario and sometimes happened even with Windows only
installed on the system (and all Fedora NVRAM entries cleared).

The fact that your on-board diagnostic doesn't see a drive suggests a
hardware problem. But I wonder if there's something (efbootmgr +
kernel tickling the firmware's NVRAM?) about Fedora that's instigating
this? Or if it's just coincidence. I guess the sample size isn't big
enough to know.

What happens if you boot from install media, and capture both
dmesg
efiboomgr -v
?

In my case, dmesg clearly showed the lack of proper ACPI
initialization, no drive was found at all.

[Angelo Moreschini]

Hi Chris,

I followed your suggestion:
I tried efibootmgr -v
and  I got this output:

*"efibootmgr: EFI variables are not supported on this system."*

thinking that the installation is not good, I found this link:

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/91620/arch-linux-grub-install-efi-va...

where is wrote :  The problem was simply that the efivars kernel module was
not loaded.

I have not so much experience so I would ask you what to do..

perhaps it is enough to install the efivars kernel module. ?

Thank you

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Chris Murphy 
wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Angelo Moreschini
>  wrote:
> > I already had some problem to install fedora on HP pavilion 500, but at
>
> last
> > I was able to finish the installation.
> >
> > I got the message: "installation complete" and so I did the shutdown.
> >
> > The computer closed regular,
> > (the system is going down for power out at ...)
> > but when I try to open it again, I find this message on the screen:
> >
> > boot device not found
> >
> > please install an operating system on your hard disk
> >
> > Hard DISK - (3F0)
> > F2 - System Diagnostics
> >
> > for more information visit the site
> > http://h18021.www1.hp.com/helpandsupport/hp-self-support.html
> >
> > The site don't explain nothing about a problem connected with linux
> >
> > and after running diagnostic I get the message :
> > ERROR: no boot disk has been detected
>
> Curious. This is the 3rd such report in just a couple months,
> including myself. In my case it was intermittent though and Dell
> support concluded either logic board or SSD flakiness; and also mine
> was a dual boot scenario and sometimes happened even with Windows only
> installed on the system (and all Fedora NVRAM entries cleared).
>
> The fact that your on-board diagnostic doesn't see a drive suggests a
> hardware problem. But I wonder if there's something (efbootmgr +
> kernel tickling the firmware's NVRAM?) about Fedora that's instigating
> this? Or if it's just coincidence. I guess the sample size isn't big
> enough to know.
>
> What happens if you boot from install media, and capture both
> dmesg
> efiboomgr -v
> ?
>
> In my case, dmesg clearly showed the lack of proper ACPI
> initialization, no drive was found at all.
>
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> Chris Murphy
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