rEFInd 0.11.4 - Not working on HP Business Class Computers

[Quinn Johnson]

We are an HP only shop and have PCs from all generations of HP both in the ProDesk and EliteDesk families. We do have some consumer level computers that do work with rEFINd with no issues. Am not sure where to start with troubleshooting or trying to provide the necessary data to try to find this bug that is causing these issues. We do use FOG to deploy and manage our PCs and have to replace rEFInd with version 0.11.0 in order for all of these PCs to work.

So far I have downloaded the CD version of rEFInd 0.11.4 and was able to boot with it on the following HP model:

Pavilion Desktop PC 570-p0xx

It failed to boot on all of these models:

EliteDesk 800 - Generation 2
EliteDesk 705 - Generation 3, and 4
ProDesk 600 - Generation 2, 3, and 4

I am happy to help test or provide any debugging that I can.

Thanks

[Tony Eckel]

I had similar issues with a 705 G2 and discovered that the SATA driver in some way blocked rEFInd. Shut off or "hide" SATA in the bios and rEFInd does just fine - which means you have to replace the SATA drive with an M.2 NVMe card.

But that works for me as well.