On 7/25/25 15:28, Will Senn wrote:
Hi,
long, long-time user of debian (since the stone age pre 1.0 days). I
wanted to try trixie out on my laptops, but no version of the install
media will boot on my Lenovo's (neither the t430 nor the y500). These
are pretty old laptops, yes, but they run 12 fine and mint and mx and
freebsd, etc.
I have disabled secure boot, tried with UEFI only, UEFI plus CSM,
Legacy only and legacy only at least gets to the grub menu. With any
UEFI setting (which I would strongly prefer), it beeps twice and the
display is blank - not entirely black, more of a charcoal gray, but no
grub menu get's displayed.
I have no experience with those laptops, however, it sounds like you
tried booting that install media on several machines without success?
I've had where my newly loaded installers did not function properly -
maybe I unplugged it before it was finished writing.
It might be worth getting another copy of the installer to see if that
makes a difference.
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Thank You!
Titus Newswanger
Curtiss WI
