On 22-08-2024 17:07, Kent Borg wrote:
> On 8/22/24 01:35, Dan Purgert via Dng wrote:
>> Daedalus shouldn't have this issue at all.
>
> The laptop came from Framework! So did the RAM and SSD from B&H Photo,
> and putting it all together was pretty obvious.
>
> But I have had a problem: Booting from the devuan installation media.
> I dd the netinstall iso to a thumb drive, Framework sees it, but I get
> the error:
>
>   EFI UBS Device (USB DISK 3.0) boot failed.
>
> I have tried a direct thumbdrive, and a couple different SD cards with
> different readers, I have tried USB C and A expansion thingies for the
> tumbdrive. I tried dd-ing on a different machine than this dying one.
>
> I have tried downloading the image more than once (the first time I
> did verify the sha256 sum).
>
> These flash devices *can* boot my old dying Intel XPS 13.
>
> Sounds like a problem with the Framework…except I can install Debian
> on the Framework. (The universe is being contrary.)
>
> I tried the "Boot from File" (not that I expected it to work), and it
> can see the two volumes: EFI and boot. Inside EFI there is a boot,
> inside there a BOOTX64.efi. Inside boot is an isolinux. So it is
> seeing something that might be sensible.
>
> I turned off fast boot to test more stuff, and the tests pass.
>
> Suggestions? (Don't leave me stuck with Debian.)
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> -kb, the Kent who is going to reset the boot ROM to defaults next.
>
>
You can use Ventoy https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html to boot (almost)
every iso image from a thumbdrive. You make the thumbdrive bootable with
Ventoy and copies as much as iso images that fit afterward.

Grtz.

Nick