Re: Trying to install Debian on Acer One 10 laptop-tablet
"Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> I downloaded Knoppix and burned it onto DVD support, but unfortunately
>> it seems no possible to boot the machine from DVD: no such
>> option in start up boot menu.
>
> If it's Knoppix 7, then it will only boot via BIOS or EFI Legacy BIOS
> Emulation.
> Knoppix 8 has boot entries for EFI. But it seems still only available
> on the german Linux Magazin DVD for DELUG members.
>
>
> The symptoms described in this thread appear to happen already when GRUB
> is still in control and offers its boot menu. Or did i get this wrong ?
Thanks. I'm not expert enough to tell if you are right. The symptoms I
described already and here they are again:
With USB Debian installation pendrive plugged in, pressing power button
together with volume up takes me into the front page of the PC settings: there
is:
->Boot Manager
->Device Manager
->Boot From File
->Administer Secure Boot
->Setup Utility
I enter `Boot Manager', and there are two possible options:
Windows Boot Manager
EFI USB Device (General UDisk)
I choose the second and here I am in Debian installation menu. There is:
Install
64 bit install
Graphical install
64 bit graphical install
Advanced options ...
Install with speech synnthesis
64 bit speech install
I tried with both Install and `64 bit install', and also, now, with `64 bit
graphical install'; and, in all those cases, what happens is that the image
becomes confused and the keyboard sticks and no command is more possible.
> If it happens in GRUB, then Knoppix 8 would be a highly interesting
> alternative. Unlike nearly all other distros it does not use GRUB for EFI
> booting but rather offers an EFI system partition which contains SYSLINUX
> and a complete little GNU/Linux system.
> So the early boot technology on EFI is very different from Debian's.
>
> If it can be confirmed that the problem is actually in GRUB, not in
> Linux, then we'd have a good reason to ask Klaus Knopper to release
> Knoppix 8 as ISO image.
So, as far as I understand, Debian live isos will also probably fail and all I
can do is waiting for Knoppix 8 iso image to be downloadable...
Rodolfo
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