Hi again, thanks for the tips, Gary and Roger.
2013/4/22 Roger Leigh <[email protected]> > I did this recently with the current Debian installer RC. If you > download the netinst or CD1 ISO image, you can simply dd it to > the USB pendrive directly, and it will boot with UEFI or legacy > BIOS. > That's correct! I tried RC1 and works like a charm! I did not use the 'dd way', but the first method listed on http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html, that is with "cat {debianrc1.iso} > /dev/sdX". It boots and install pretty nicely, I did not find any bug. > The hardest part was getting the key to boot. The main thing to > look out for is that "secure boot" *must* be disabled or else > you can't boot it. My ASUS board UEFI BIOS had some annoying > bug whereby it was silently re-enabling it behind my back, causing > countless frustration as I spent hours trying to make it boot. > Also, if you can disable booting from legacy BIOS to ensure that > only the UEFI boot method shows up (the pendrive will support both, > but you can't install it properly unless you boot in UEFI mode). > Another gotcha is that the chainloader can sometimes start > booting from one medium and switch to another if you have > multiple pendrives or CDs available; note that this is mainly > an issue when secure boot is enabled, and it'll silently skip > booting from an "insecure" medium. > In my motherboard, at first I could not boot the "good" Debian RC1 key because I had enabled "Fast boot", which unables USB media for booting. I noticed that after trying the 3 methods on the link above with no luck. I'm so happy to be back on Debian! Many thanks for the responses. Kind regards, Fran
