![]() These changes are apparently kept in some kind of volatile memory if the battery is completely emptied, the laptop will forget these BIOS changes and complain it can’t find an operating system on boot. Follow the instructions to enter a 4-digit number shown and press enter. ![]() When the Stream next restarts it will stop at a black screen, asking you to confirm that you want to change the boot options. Finally move to the Exit option and choose “Save and Exit”.Go down to the Legacy Boot Order section and use F5 to move the “USB Diskette on Key/USB Hard Disk” to the top of the boot order, so that the laptop looks there first for something to boot from.There will be a warning that it won’t boot, but we can ignore that as we’re about to completely remove the existing OS. Choose Legacy Support and press Enter to enable it.Move down to the Boot Options menu, and press Enter to fold open the extra options.Once the menu appears, press F10 to select the BIOS setup, and then System Configuration.You have to be very quick, it’s quite tricky to catch the brief window of opportunity. Reboot the Stream, pressing the Esc key at the first part of the boot process to enter the BIOs menu.I followed the steps described by Kevin Purdman in his Make the HP Stream 11 into a Linux Crapbook The next step is to get the Stream to boot from a USB drive. ![]() ![]() During the installation process the installer will say it doesn’t have all the firmware it needs, and ask for it, in this case it can find it on the second USB stick (luckily the Stream has exactly 2 USB ports). To install Raspbian Desktop you will need two USB sticks, the first should be flashed with the ISO image of the Raspbian Desktop OS, the second you need to download the Debian non-free firmware Also it might not work, and you could end up with a light-weight pale blue brick. I never re-installed Windows afterwards, so I have no idea what steps you would need to take to return the laptop to its original state if you don’t like having Linux on it. It should be obvious, but a warning to anyone following along: if you do this you will wipe anything that was on the laptop previously. I also don’t have any particular demands of the laptop, being cheap, light and able to run a web browser are enough to turn it into a travel laptop that I can easily carry with me and not worry if something happens to it. The main reason being that I don’t do a lot of Linux at the moment, but when I do it’s often on a Raspberry Pi, so having something familiar makes life a little easier. In the end I went for the desktop version of Raspbian It also has a keyboard with a space bar so spongy it only works every second press.Īs ever with Linux there are multitude of distributions to choose from, even if you want to have only a ’lightweight’ distribution. What it does have is: 2GB of RAM, a Celeron 3060 CPU, 32GB eMMC storage, two USB ports, 1 HDMI, micro-SD card reader, headphone jack and power socket. The back says model “hp-y050sa”, which doesn’t appear on HP’s long list of models I think it’s a 2014 model, but they have been releasing updates under the same name and the same chassis - it’s light blue and has ridges on the lid. So there’s only one option to revive it.įirst, it’s entirely clear to me which version of the HP Stream 11 this is. It’s also very cheap, or in this case free, from a relative, as it’d managed to Windows Update itself into a corner. The HP Stream 11 is “cloud ready” laptop with the appearance, feel and finish of a Fisher-Price toy.
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