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

[Flacusbigotis <flacusbigotis@gmail.com>]

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