Laptop model: 2017 HP Stream 14
The long and short is I am almost 100% sure HP has blocks in BIOS and/or Firmware to stop owners from doing what I am doing now. Just looking for any other Stream owners or Technically interested persons wanting to keep some web surfer laptops out of the landfill.
So this has been a month of me farting around with my old 2017 HP Stream 14 32 GB eMMC 4 GB.
What started as just a battery replacement and a search for disassembly videos, landed me in a rabbit hole of upgrades and software additions. I was left with 2 methods to make this happen. Method 1 is Duet with rEFInd +Windows 10 (Tundra Time on YouTube), and Method 2 PoP OS + rEFInd+ Windows 10 (PFC on YouTube). Both left me hitting a wall of Install Loops.
Everything worked flawlessly up to the point of first reboot. In rEFInd if Windows Logo is selected it's a Recovery Error and reboot does not make second stage of install. If Fall Back Logo is selected the install only starts over again.
Yesterday a Linux user spelled it out for me in simple to understand terms doing a manual install, creating partitions manually to aid in getting around the Streams limitations. So now with no need for another boot manager I have PoP OS (Linux) booting off the NVME drive, Windows is still hitting the Recovery Error after first boot.
So I now have the laptop with 8 GB Ram a 480 GB NVME SSD + M.2 to NVME Adapter cable with both OS installed, the 32 GB eMMC partitioned into 26 GB Fat32 Storage + System + Recovery for Linux.
So how on earth can you have two different OSs in their own partition giving two different results on boot?PoP OS Boots happy as a clam, but Windows is still falling on it's face.
Is something in the Firmware or BIOS blocking the Boot?
The long and short is I am almost 100% sure HP has blocks in BIOS and/or Firmware to stop owners from doing what I am doing now. Just looking for any other Stream owners or Technically interested persons wanting to keep some web surfer laptops out of the landfill.
So this has been a month of me farting around with my old 2017 HP Stream 14 32 GB eMMC 4 GB.
What started as just a battery replacement and a search for disassembly videos, landed me in a rabbit hole of upgrades and software additions. I was left with 2 methods to make this happen. Method 1 is Duet with rEFInd +Windows 10 (Tundra Time on YouTube), and Method 2 PoP OS + rEFInd+ Windows 10 (PFC on YouTube). Both left me hitting a wall of Install Loops.
Everything worked flawlessly up to the point of first reboot. In rEFInd if Windows Logo is selected it's a Recovery Error and reboot does not make second stage of install. If Fall Back Logo is selected the install only starts over again.
Yesterday a Linux user spelled it out for me in simple to understand terms doing a manual install, creating partitions manually to aid in getting around the Streams limitations. So now with no need for another boot manager I have PoP OS (Linux) booting off the NVME drive, Windows is still hitting the Recovery Error after first boot.
So I now have the laptop with 8 GB Ram a 480 GB NVME SSD + M.2 to NVME Adapter cable with both OS installed, the 32 GB eMMC partitioned into 26 GB Fat32 Storage + System + Recovery for Linux.
So how on earth can you have two different OSs in their own partition giving two different results on boot?PoP OS Boots happy as a clam, but Windows is still falling on it's face.
Is something in the Firmware or BIOS blocking the Boot?
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