Santa brought me a new laptop

[Evelyn Mitchell]

I'm just an amateur, but Windows 11 cranked up the secure boot
verification, so you may need to turn that off in the BIOS to be able to to
the install/boot.

Evelyn

On Sun, Dec 29, 2024, 2:33 PM Bill Thorson <bill at tstorms.com> wrote:

> On 12/26/24 16:07, spiros thanasoulas wrote:
>
> could it be that the image is not EFI based?
> or maybe in the bios there is a setting to enable non-uefi boot modes?
>
> Ok, after 30+ years of running Linux on everything and building and
> running many clusters of Linux computers all over the place, I'm finally
> stumped with this one,  Here's the thumb drive image of Debian 12 I created
> by dd'ing the .iso to the drive.
>
> As seen by the Linux boot menu:
>
>
>
> And Linux when I selected it:
>
>
>
> Now on IdeaPad 5 2-in-1 14Q8X9 and Windoz 11 boot menu:
>
>
> Not seen!  Windoz BIOS:
>
>
> No control over UEFI option.  Now when I select the drive in Windoz:
>
>
> Then when I cancel formatting the drive:
>
>
> Definitely looks like Windoz is not using UEFI and not recognizing the
> format.  I've searched everywhere to find out how to fix this.  It has been
> completely frustrating.  No wonder I've stayed away from these pathetic
> operating systems my entire career.
>
> But, still would appreciate any ideas that might help.
>
> Bill
>
>
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