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.