soong
October 13th, 2008, 05:35 PM
Okay, I'm fairly new to ubuntu and Linux in general, and this is my first time actually posting on these forums. I'm posting because this is the first time I haven't been able to find someone else with the same problem that I have.
I'm trying to install ubuntu 8.04 on my brand new HP Pavilion tx2000. I already made a partition for it, and it's currently running Vista 64 bit, just as my desktop is, which I built myself, which now has XP, Vista, and Ubuntu, and they all work fine (well, except there's no wireless drivers for my card for 64 bit OS.... sigh...)
Anyway, when I try to install ubuntu on the laptop, it loads up, asks me for my language, then I tell it to install. It loads all the stuff, then tells me to take out the disk and hit enter. The laptop shuts off, doesn't restart. I hit the power key, and then it boots into Windows, never pausing to ask me anything. I've tried multiple copies of the install disk, burned a 8x, 4x, 2x, and then 1x. Same problem every time. Is there maybe something in HP's setup that makes it ignore changes to the boot info?
Someone recommended I try EasyBCD, but I have no idea how to configure it so it boots ubuntu, much less how to make it continue the installation process.
I'm trying to install ubuntu 8.04 on my brand new HP Pavilion tx2000. I already made a partition for it, and it's currently running Vista 64 bit, just as my desktop is, which I built myself, which now has XP, Vista, and Ubuntu, and they all work fine (well, except there's no wireless drivers for my card for 64 bit OS.... sigh...)
Anyway, when I try to install ubuntu on the laptop, it loads up, asks me for my language, then I tell it to install. It loads all the stuff, then tells me to take out the disk and hit enter. The laptop shuts off, doesn't restart. I hit the power key, and then it boots into Windows, never pausing to ask me anything. I've tried multiple copies of the install disk, burned a 8x, 4x, 2x, and then 1x. Same problem every time. Is there maybe something in HP's setup that makes it ignore changes to the boot info?
Someone recommended I try EasyBCD, but I have no idea how to configure it so it boots ubuntu, much less how to make it continue the installation process.