Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian
On Thu, Jun 08, 2023 at 06:36:27PM +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> I want to install Debian on a new machine but don't manage to boot from USB
> stick. (I can do so regularly with another machine, so the USB stick is ok and
> so is the Debian netinst I burned onto it.) At the boot I press F9 and a menu
> appears where I can choose to boot from USB stick; but then it doesn't so at all
> booting instead into Windows 11. In BIOS I enabled the CSM protocol but
> nothing. Please help as I don't know what to do: thanks.
>
Hi Rodolfo,
What model of machine is this - and how new?
How did you write the image to the USB stick?
CSM is probably not needed. USB boot *should* work but there is a
way of forcing boot only to Windows 11 in some machines. (I had this
on a relatively new T490).
Does it show any messages?
> Rodolfo
>
All the very best, as ever,
Andy Cater
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