<div dir="ltr">Hi Spiros,<div>Is the USB thumb ISO install drive UEFI bootable? I'm a bit of an amateur and I might have missed it? A lot of these newer machines cannot boot via legacy booting and therefore require that the USB installation drive be UEFI-bootable.</div><div>I would also turn off secure boot too. My newer servers boot only UEFI. Annoying, but I can work with that and also can make drives UEFI bootable when I restore OS backups.</div><div>Please kindly bring your laptop to the Hackers' meeting tomorrow or the following week. I'll be back for the Jan 7, Hackers' meeting.</div><div>Best,</div><div>Phil</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 4:08 PM spiros thanasoulas via NCLUG <<a href="mailto:nclug@nclug.org">nclug@nclug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 03:40:26PM -0700, Bill Thorson wrote:<br>
> NCLUGers,<br>
> <br>
> Santa brought me a new Lenovo Ideapad 5x 14" Touchscreen Laptop <<a href="https://www.costco.com/lenovo-ideapad-5x-14-2-in-1-touchscreen-laptop-qualcomm-snapdragon-x-plus-oled-1920-x-1200-windows-11-copilot+-pc.product.4000305603.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.costco.com/lenovo-ideapad-5x-14-2-in-1-touchscreen-laptop-qualcomm-snapdragon-x-plus-oled-1920-x-1200-windows-11-copilot+-pc.product.4000305603.html</a>>. <br>
> Santa's buying points at CostCO were:<br>
> <br>
> * $150 off the regular price till Dec 25<br>
> * 90 day return for any reason if I don't like it (doesn't do Linux well).<br>
> * 2yr warranty<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> I have been using Linux on my desktops/laptops since Softlanding Linux<br>
> System (SLS) in about 1993. I haven't touched any Windows since about<br>
> Windows 95 in 2000. I'm working on a desktop application that I want to<br>
> eventually work on Linux, Windows, and MacOS. Therefore, I've decided to<br>
> maybe dual boot this laptop so I can play with and test the future Windows<br>
> version of my app. Of course the default boot OS will be Linux. I can go<br>
> into the boot menu if I want Windoz.<br>
> <br>
> I decided to try Debian Live (debian-live-12.8.0-amd64-mate.iso) on a USB<br>
> stick to see how it will run on the new hardware. Then, if good I can maybe<br>
> use the included Calamares installer to install. I just dd'd that image to<br>
> the thumb drive so it's in iso9660 format. Linux has no problem mounting it.<br>
could it be that the image is not EFI based?<br>
or maybe in the bios there is a setting to enable non-uefi boot modes?<br>
if that is the case i would also keep secure boot turned off cause<br>
i think that secure boot would imply efi mode. or just make sure you<br>
have an EFI based debian image.<br>
<br>
also keep in mind that the performance of the debian live when it is<br>
touching the "disk" (your thumbdrive) should be horrible under normal<br>
conditions. don't let that deter you ;)<br>
<br>
<br>
> <br>
> Now's where the complications are occurring for this old-timer:<br>
> <br>
> * Boot from USB: I got into the boot menu (F12) and it doesn't see<br>
> the drive. I found the BIOS menu (F2) and it says USB Boot is Enabled.<br>
> * In BIOS turned off secure boot but wouldn't boot without a 48 did<br>
> get BitLocker recovery key. I turned secure boot turned back on.<br>
> * In Windoz turned off BitLocker and decrypted the disk. Re-entered<br>
> BIOS and turned off secure boot again. This time it doesn't<br>
> complain about recovery key at all but the Boot menu still doesn't<br>
> see the USB disk.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Could this be because it's in the iso format? Windoz Disk Management tool<br>
> says it's "29.30 GB RAW; Healthy (Active, Primary Partition)" whatever that<br>
> means.<br>
> <br>
> Any suggestions appreciated!<br>
> <br>
> Bill<br>
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