On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 09:27:39AM -0600, David Wright wrote:
On Fri 20 Jan 2023 at 05:23:06 (+0000), Russell L. Harris wrote:
On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 10:18:33PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 20 Jan 2023 at 03:43:09 (+0000), Russell L. Harris wrote:
> > I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude
> > 3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian
> > 11) written to USB flash (8Gbyte Patriot).
BTW you don't say whether you've ever booted it from any kind of stick.
The machine was a gift; this is my first experience with a laptop of
recent manufacture.
The Service Manual latitude-3510-sm-en-us.pdf (p88/9) says
??? Enable USB Boot Support - Allows the system to boot
from an external USB device (Enabled by default)
??? Enable External USB Ports - Allows the user to enable
or disable the USB ports on the computer (Enabled by
default)
I checked those.
Page 87 (p89/90 also relevant) explains that you can turn on booting
from an mSD card.
It's worth trying a variety of sticks, and in every available port,
lest it's USB2/3, or just some other inexplicable incompatibility.
I've had laptops showing that behaviour.
This flash stick has booted other machines.
mSD sounds promising.
RLH
