On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 07:17:22PM -0400, Michael Galea via talk wrote: > Just completed an install of debian on a Lenovo T480 running windows, for > dual boot. > The install was made more complex by the fact that the T480 doesn't have a > CD, and that the laptop booted win10 in UEFI with secure boot. > > I was very surprised by the differing consensus of how to generate a UEFI > bootable net-install. A simple dd of the image to the usb stick did NOT > result in a UEFI bootable image. What did work, was formatting the usb stick > vfat, and extracting the install iso onto it. > > I found this to be a clumsy workaround. Does anybody have a better method? > > Also, the literature was rife with warnings of Window's tendency to blow > away the the linux bootloader (although some claims were made that this is > less likely under UEFI). Does anyone have any experience with this, and what > what is a likely recovery procedure for it?
dd of the debian install image has always made a bootable USB key for me, both on legacy BIOS and UEFI systems. Of course that is dd to the disk, not a partition on the disk. I have not had windows 10 ever break my linux boot loader. I don't remember if windows 7 ever did it either because that is so long ago. Before that it was a common problem for sure. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
