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Re: Unable to boot UEFI laptop from Debian 11 Live USB stick

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Thank you! I was using the 32-bit image! Duh!!!  I retried with the 64-bit
image and it is all good!


On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 11:16 AM Andrew M.A. Cater <amacater@einval.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 07:43:56PM -0600, Flacusbigotis wrote:
> > Thomas and Andrew, thanks for your reply.
> >
> >
> > The laptop is no more than two years old and it has an Intel Core
> i3-1005G1
> > processor.
> > Also, I checked the USB stick and it only has the 32-bit EFI program in
> the
> > EFI boot folder.
> >
> > I assume based on what Andrew said that maybe the UEFI needs to be
> 64-bit.
> > I guess I will take the thread to the debian-live mailing list and ask
> why
> > there is no 64-bit UEFI program and their plans to add one.
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 5:18 AM Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > > > I had a similar issue the other day with an old Intel Baytrail
> > > > notebook where the UEFI is 32 bit and the processor is 64 bit -
> using a
> > > > Debian multi-arch installer worked. I used the one with firmware.
> > >
> > > This would match the observation that Knoppix 9.1 works.
> > > I have Knoppix 9.0 and  9.2 ISOs. On both the EFI partition has start
> > > programs for 64 bit and for 32 bit:
> > >   /mnt/fat/efi/boot/BOOTIA32.efi
> > >   /mnt/fat/efi/boot/BOOTX64.efi
> > >
> > >
> > > Have a nice day :)
> > >
> > > Thomas
> > >
> > >
>
> Check which Debian live image you downloaded - I think there are two
> versions
> -- one 32 bit, one 64 bit.
>
> To be honest, I'd be tempted to just use a standard Debian installer.
>
> If you have a machine which only has UEFI and refuses to boot a 64 bit
> Debian live at any point - at that point, you can look to say whether it's
> one of the outliers with a 32 bit BIOS and 64 bit CPU.
>
> There was a rash of netbooks a few years ago with 2GB RAM for just this
> reason
> they were sold with cut down 32 bit Windows versions.
>
> Hope this helps, all the very best, as ever,
>
> Andy C.
>
>

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Unable to boot UEFI laptop from Debian 11 Live USB stick Flacusbigotis <flacusbigotis@gmail.com> - 2022-02-08 03:50 +0100
  Re: Unable to boot UEFI laptop from Debian 11 Live USB stick "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2022-02-08 09:00 +0100
  Re: Unable to boot UEFI laptop from Debian 11 Live USB stick "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-02-08 11:30 +0100
    Re: Unable to boot UEFI laptop from Debian 11 Live USB stick "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2022-02-08 12:20 +0100
      Re: Unable to boot UEFI laptop from Debian 11 Live USB stick Flacusbigotis <flacusbigotis@gmail.com> - 2022-02-11 02:50 +0100
        Re: Unable to boot UEFI laptop from Debian 11 Live USB stick "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2022-02-11 08:30 +0100
        Re: Unable to boot UEFI laptop from Debian 11 Live USB stick "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-02-11 18:20 +0100
          Re: Unable to boot UEFI laptop from Debian 11 Live USB stick Flacusbigotis <flacusbigotis@gmail.com> - 2022-02-11 23:00 +0100

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