Hi Hendrik,

Hendrik Boom writes:

> I used dd to copy the installer iso to a USB stck on my old laptop:
>
> dd bs=4M if=devuan_ascii_2.0.0_amd64_netinst.iso of=/dev/sdb status=progress && sync

Looks fine to me. Apart from the status= bit an using bs=1M, I did the
same two days ago and installed an old desktop machine just fine.

> Then I moved the USB stick to my new Purism laptop, powered it up,
> pressed esacpe to get a boot menu, and the USB stick was not recognised
> as a boot device.

As Didier mentioned in another reply, you may have to play around with
settings in the BIOS. I know I had to. In my case, I had to make the
USB stick the first hard disk in the hard disk device list even though
none of the other hard disks had any OS on them. The BIOS only ever
tried to boot from the first hard disk and if that failed went on to the
CD drive.

You mentioned that Purism ISOs boot fine for you. Could it be that your
BIOS has Trusted Boot or Secure Boot or similar enabled?
Guess you oughta ask the Purism people about that (after you check their
documentation of course).

Hope this helps,
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