Kent West wrote: > I walked away then and came back in a few minutes to find it had finished, > but didn't pay attention to any other messages, and then tried booting it > on another year-old Dell PC. It gave me the grub menu, but then when I > tried to boot Debian Live, I got an error about an invalid magic number and > a need to load a kernel first.
I stumbled over something last night with the netinst installer and a Dell Latitude E7250 (which still had Windows on it). I don't know if it's related to your problem, but in case it might be relevant, I thought I'd mention it. I was able to boot the installer from a thumbdrive, and it would get through a couple screens (e.g., locale), but then it would get no further, saying it couldn't find the "CDROM" (i.e., the thumb drive). I eventually came across this text in the Installation Guide[1]: On some UEFI systems, the firmware will reduce “boot” time by not initialising the keyboard controller or USB hardware I booted the BIOS setup and changed the system from fast boot to "thorough" boot. That fixed my problem. regards, mike [1] https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch03s06.html.en#disable-fast-boot
