OOPS I apparently replied directly to tuulen. I am now trying to copy that reply to the list. Sorry for
the confusion. =============================================================== [OOOPS! I am replying to you directly and not to the list. At this point I will try to send a second copy to the list so you might end up with two copies. DUH!!!] No promises but a thought. You might look at rEFInd. The danger in a suggestion like this is if it does not work out for you in your particular situation, you may have wasted a lot of time. On the other hand, even if that is the case you might learn stuff but based on how you described you original problem, you just want to get to a usable system. (I happen to favor keeping it simple and just get it to work). On the plus side (you can call this anecdotal if you want to downplay the value of the suggestion to use rEFInd or if you like the idea you can refer to my suggestion as the result of a case study -- my limited but successful use of rEFInd when I was very frustrated by the EFI/UEFI interface of an un-named computer manfacturer whose name has an uncanny resembelance to the name you mentioned in your post, but maybe it was just me being a bit dense or worse in understanding what was needed. Anyways, a URL that might get your foot in the door is: http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ FWIW, rEFInd is also mentioned on Wikipedia. The URL for that is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REFInd The official website makes it clear that donations are appreciated but that is not a requirement as I understand it. Good luck. Let us know if you decide to explore this possibility or if going down this path is tooooooooo much of a distraction of what seems to be your objective to simply can Linux running on -- what was that brand name again? -- computer. ============================================================== On 06/07/2019 10:46 PM, tuulen wrote:
Hi, I am an ordinary GUI and mouse computer user, not a command line user. But I want to get away from both Apple and Microsoft. I spent a lot of time looking into Linux, Unix, BSD, and eventually I discovered Debian. And because I like to know the details of what I am doing I also discovered that I just naturally like Debian, too, as Debian is built upon explanations, fine with me! I was in the process of partitioning my hard drive to install Debian when I encountered a couple of UEFI complications. My HP Laptop with Windows 10 does not offer a way to disable the "secure boot" feature of UEFI, so that makes Debian off limits. Then I went to the HP website but almost all of the available HP desktops and laptops have Windows 10, with presumably the same useless UEFI that I now have, and I did not see any Linux-compatible HP computers as available. I am aware that there are other computer makers and manufacturers but I am wondering what computers the Debian community prefers. Fortunately my needs are small bandwidth-wise, no gaming, no movies, nothing bigger than an occasional news clip or YouTube clip, so I do not need a big, powerful computer. I can continue to use Apple and Microsoft computers for ordinary day-to-day uses but there are some uses, like banking and financial matters including credit card use, etc., for which I would very much appreciate a more secure computer and for different reasons I have come to distrust both Apple and Microsoft. OK, so there is a steep learning curve to using Debian, but I think I can handle learning how to do what I need to do. Any computer model suggestions? Thanks! Best regards, Doug
