Using the official Debian 8.1.0-amd64-netinst image dated 20150606-14:16 copied to a usb flash stick, I today installed Debian Jessie with Xfce desktop to an early Lenovo S205 Ideapad which utilizes UEFI.
The installation boots successfully from the hard drive, and appears to run properly. However, there is a problem with shutdown. When the SHUTDOWN button on the Xfce desktop is clicked, the screen goes dark and the machine appears to be shutting down, but it remains powered up until the hardware POWER button is pressed. None of numerous previous attempts to install Debian on this machine was successful. The last attempt was with an earlier version of the Jessie netinst image. On that installation I did not try installing GRUB to the removable media path. However, in seaching to see whether others have been successful installing Jessie on the Asus EeePC, I ran across several articles regarding problems Debian and Ubuntu users have encountered with UEFI on 64-bit and 32-bit systems, together with much discussion of how to circumvent those problems. See, for example, https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI. I had no assurance that the current Debian installer of Jessie would work, but the discussions which I read indicated that progress had been made since the release of Wheezy, and that encouraged me to try again. When I purchased the S205, I was oblivious with respect to the fact that it had UEFI BIOS. I wiped the hard drive, confident that Debian would install without difficulty. And wiping the drive destroyed the restoration copy of Windows. A couple of years later I learned that Lenovo was selling a new verision of the S205, with a different BIOS. If I recall correctly, no upgrade was possible. And the price of a Windows CD was higher than I was willing to pay. But, thanks to the Debian installer team, I now have use of a machine which has been idle now for several years. Russ
