HP Pavilion 15-ab214nt

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Hardware PCI/USB ID Working?
GPU Yes
Audio Yes
Ethernet Yes
Wireless Yes
Bluetooth 0bda:b006 Yes
Touchpad Yes
Card reader Yes
Webcam 0408:50b0 Yes

This is the 2015 Pavilion 15-ab214nt

  • Intel i5-6200U (Skylake)
  • 8GB RAM
  • Nvidia GeForce 940M
  • 1TB SATA HDD (WD)
  • 1366x768 LED Display (LG)
  • Dual Speakers
  • 2 USB 3.0, single USB 2, HDMI output, SD Card port, Ethernet port, A optical disk drive and an audio jack

This article covers specific configuration of this laptop.

Installation

You have to disable Secure Boot. repeatedly press F10 during boot to bring up the BIOS setup, navigate to the boot section and disable Secure Boot. If set properly, it works with GRUB and shim.

To prevent the system from booting in Legacy mode, disable CSM/Legacy mode.

Before booting, you need to put pci=nomsi as a kernel parameter, or there will be an infinite amount of PCI bus errors and the system will hang during or after boot. Do not forget to put it after the installation too.

UEFI on this laptop is a bit on the broken side, do not play with it too much.

Consider using hpfall.

Other

On previous kernels, some ACPI errors, although not harmful, were logged at boot. But on recent kernels this seems to be fixed.

If the boot entry for Linux is gone (because of a Windows or a BIOS update), repeatedly press F9 after pressing the power button, navigate and select "Boot from EFI file", then select the .efi file of your boot manager.

The system will not allow changing to boot order when there is BIOS administrator password set.