I treated myself to a HP Envy 700-230EA at the weekend - Core 7 & 16 ram etc. Although I partly wish I hadn't bothered as it seems no faster than my middle of the road 2 year old AMD system.
I found the HP guide on how to install a 2nd O/S using a DVD (disable secure boot / enable legacy boot / choose ATAPI CD/DVD as the 1st boot option). This worked fine and a boot entry for Opensuse was added to the boot order options. I left the ATAPI CD/DVD as the first option / had opensuse as option 2 - with the Windows Bootloader as option 3.
With no CD/DVD drive the p/c automatically boots into Opensuse. When I re-boot it automatically boots into opensuse etc. But whenever I boot into Windows - windows sets itself as the first bootloader option. So I am having to re-set the boot loader option after everytime I use Windows back to Opensuse (which is a bit of a pain in th bum).
Has anyone any experience in locking HP EFI settings. I think that I found a clue last night. I can set opensuse as the first boot option using F10 the bios settings but if I use F9 the booting options - it will not allow me to set opensuse as the first option. I think that this is to do with a setting in the bios 'use HP keys'. If I switch this off, set opensuse as the first boot option (using F10) and then re-boot and use F9 it will then allow me to mark opensuse as the first option. But whenever I boot into windows it is re-setting itself as the first boot option and changing 'use HP keys' to 'yes'.
Many thanks
I found the HP guide on how to install a 2nd O/S using a DVD (disable secure boot / enable legacy boot / choose ATAPI CD/DVD as the 1st boot option). This worked fine and a boot entry for Opensuse was added to the boot order options. I left the ATAPI CD/DVD as the first option / had opensuse as option 2 - with the Windows Bootloader as option 3.
With no CD/DVD drive the p/c automatically boots into Opensuse. When I re-boot it automatically boots into opensuse etc. But whenever I boot into Windows - windows sets itself as the first bootloader option. So I am having to re-set the boot loader option after everytime I use Windows back to Opensuse (which is a bit of a pain in th bum).
Has anyone any experience in locking HP EFI settings. I think that I found a clue last night. I can set opensuse as the first boot option using F10 the bios settings but if I use F9 the booting options - it will not allow me to set opensuse as the first option. I think that this is to do with a setting in the bios 'use HP keys'. If I switch this off, set opensuse as the first boot option (using F10) and then re-boot and use F9 it will then allow me to mark opensuse as the first option. But whenever I boot into windows it is re-setting itself as the first boot option and changing 'use HP keys' to 'yes'.
Many thanks