• Re: trixie rc2 installer doesn't work on lenovo t430 or y500 in uefi mo

    From Titus Newswanger@21:1/5 to Will Senn on Fri Jul 25 23:50:02 2025
    On 7/25/25 15:28, Will Senn wrote:
    Hi,

    long, long-time user of debian (since the stone age pre 1.0 days). I
    wanted to try trixie out on my laptops, but no version of the install
    media will boot on my Lenovo's (neither the t430 nor the y500). These
    are pretty old laptops, yes, but they run 12 fine and mint and mx and freebsd, etc.

    I have disabled secure boot, tried with UEFI only, UEFI plus CSM,
    Legacy only and legacy only at least gets to the grub menu. With any
    UEFI setting (which I would strongly prefer), it beeps twice and the
    display is blank - not entirely black, more of a charcoal gray, but no
    grub menu get's displayed.

    I have no experience with those laptops, however, it sounds like you
    tried booting that install media on several machines without success?
    I've had where my newly loaded installers did not function properly -
    maybe I unplugged it before it was finished writing.

    It might be worth getting another copy of the installer to see if that
    makes a difference.

    --
    Thank You!

    Titus Newswanger
    Curtiss WI

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