You may need to disable fast boot as well and use legacy boot (if you
didn't do it so far).
Looks to me that it didn't recognize the USB key as a boot key, or it
tried to boot from hard drive without checking the usb key. Try the usb
key on another computer, just to be sure that the key is working well.

Regards,
Antonio

Il 04/01/23 02:38, Fred ha scritto:
> On 1/3/23 18:22, john faulk wrote:
>> Have you tried going into the bios at all?
>
> Yes, I have been all through the bios.  I checked the boot order which is:
> CD (which the pc doesn't have)
> USB
> Network  (which I removed)
>
> There is another page that also lists the internal hard drive.
>
> The boot options are: Legacy and Secure Boot which appears to be a
> Windows thing.  There is a tab for UEFI drivers.  If that is selected it
> changes to a page that says I will be directed to a page for a third
> party rom also accessible  with F3.  If that is selected it changes to a
> page with only the option: EXIT which reboots the pc.  I assume the rom
> is not installed.
>
> Best regards,
> Fred
>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2023, 7:18 PM Fred <fred@???
>> <mailto:fred@blakemfg.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 1/3/23 15:54, Antony Stone wrote:
>>      > On Tuesday 03 January 2023 at 22:28:41, Fred wrote:
>>      >
>>      >> Hello,
>>      >>
>>      >> I bought a "refurbished" HP EliteDesk 800 G2 mini-pc with the
>>     intention
>>      >> of running Chimaera on it.  However, it will only legacy boot
>>     and the
>>      >> .iso install files for Chimaera on the USB stick are .efi.  Is
>>     all hope
>>      >> lost or is there a work around?
>>      >
>>      > Sorry, but I don't understand the problem.
>>      >
>>      > I have at least four machines here which have no concept of UEFI
>>     - they boot
>>      > using BIOS only, and yet they (start and) run Chimaera quite
>> happily.
>>      >
>>      > So, when you attempt to install Chimaera on this EliteDesk
>>     machine, what
>>      > exactly is the problem you run into?
>>      >
>>      >
>>      > Antony.
>>      >
>>     The pc sees the usb stick as it turns on the led and at times
>> makes it
>>     flash.  However, what it does is snoop around the local network
>>     until it
>>     finds the gateway then it downloads Windows 10 and starts setup for
>>     that.  If I don't have the Ethernet cable attached it eventually
>> brings
>>     up a screen with several remote servers and allows one to be selected
>>     but it won't continue without the network.
>>
>>     I used dd to write this file:
>>
>>     devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_amd64_server.iso
>>
>>     to the usb stick.  I can mount it and see the files:
>>
>>     There is: /efi/boot/bootia32.efi
>>     and:      /efi/boot/bootx64.efi
>>
>>     What can I check now?
>>
>>     Best regards,
>>     Fred
>>
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