Hi! lucas...@me.com wrote: > >I havenât submitted anything about this previously, as I thought for >whatever reason I was the only user impacted by this issue, but there >seem to be other users posting on Reddit with similar issues which >could be linked. > >My problem is with the Debian 11.4 Live Image installer. > >The installation works like a charm on KVM-based virtual machines (I >have proxmox in my home lab), the issue is that on physical hardware, >it the Calamares installer doesnât write a boot record, leaving the >system in an unboottable state after installation. > >This has occurred with two of my Dell Laptops, an XPS 9575 as well as >a Latitude E5470. Iâve used Legacy and UEFI modes, no >improvement. Both my laptops have no problem installing and running: >Fedora 36, RHEL 8.4 (and clones), Ubuntu 22.04, Manjaro, Pop OS >22.04. Literally every other distro Iâve tested installs fine, the >issue is solely with Debian Live images
Hmmm. This sounds suspiciously like a a firmware bug that we've seen before with XPS machines: https://bugs.debian.org/905319 If you boot the live image, could you run "sudo efibootmgr -v" from a terminal and grab the output please? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews
