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Re: installing Debian on Acer X1430 [solved]



Le jeudi 20 août 2015, 18:08:35 Klaus Becker a écrit :

> Hi,

>

> friends gave me this pc. They installed Linuxmint on it, but it did

> not boot. There is no more Windows on the computer.

>

> I tried to install Magéia5, same problem.

>

> Then I installed debian-8.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso from usb flashdisk,

> still without boot success. I installed in expert mode and I

> choosed also installing in removable media path.

>

> The Bios/EFI has no secure boot and no Bios legacy option. In the

> boot option in the Bios there is only "efi" and "hard disk", but

> both will not work with hard disk. On boot, no hard disk is found

> though it is listed in Bios.

>

> I can boot on flash disk because usb legacy is activated in Bios.

> F12 allows me to choose efi or legacy usb boot, only legacy works.

>

> After installing Debian, I chrooted with Knoppix to Debian and I

> installed efibootmgr, but efibootmgr tells me that "EFI variables

> are not supported on this system." So what can I do? Is it

> impossible to install Debian or another GNU/Linux system on this

> computer?

>

> For the moment, I can only use it with a live system like Knoppix.

>

> I asked on debian user list and I read several documents about EFI,

> for ex. https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI, but I still need help.

>

> cheers

>

> Klaus

 

 

Finally I got it work, simply by installing not from flashdisk but from DVD. So it could start in efi-mod and it works.

 

greetings

 

Klaus


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