On Saturday 11 November 2017 13:23:24 Mike Kupfer wrote: > 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-f >ast-boot
Very good to know Mike, thank you. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
