HP EliteBook 840 G7 stuck at "rEFInd - Initializing..."

[tech04]

@tom-elliott Interesting…enabling Secure Boot did in fact cause the computer to boot to the Windows OS. But it bypassed the FOG menu. It downloaded the NBP successfully, but then loaded Windows.

Disabling Secure Boot caused it to once again boot to the FOG menu, which then timed out, and then hit the rEFInd snag.

Is this model of hardware unable to boot to the FOG server, timeout, and then load Windows?

At this point, it seems it can do either Windows or FOG, but not both together.

[rankinc]

@tech04 Were you able to figure this out?

I’m having the same issue with an HP 450 G7. Tried all the exit types.

I can pxe and image fine but it will not boot to Windows unless I have HD set as first boot.

[Sebastian Roth]

@rankinc Seems like HP systems are a pain when it comes to chainloading the OS from disk. Can you try different versions of rEFInd to see if maybe the newest one works with your device.

[rankinc]

@sebastian-roth Well I tried a few versions and ultimately I copied the original refind.efi to be refind_x64.efi and it is working…? the v12, v12 _x64.efis were not working so I just threw something at the wall. going to test some other models that previously worked to see if I broke them.

[Sebastian Roth]

@rankinc We might have a hint for you which @RobertD posted just an hour ago: https://forums.fogproject.org/post/141591

[fabritrento]

Also I have this rEFInd hangup screen… there are a solution? hw Is a hp all-in-one the temporary solution Is to Press f9 at boot to start via pxe so if hard disk Is the First start option in BIOS list Windows starts up normally, but Is Crazy pressing f9 Every time when you have to do a multicast session of 20-30 PC…