On Mon 04 Nov 2024 at 12:36:18 (+0000), Chris Green wrote: > This continues from my "Failed Debian 12 install..." thread earlier > today. > > I can't get the USB Installation stick to boot into the Debian > installation process when I load it in UEFI mode. If I boot the USB > stick in UEFI mode it just takes me to the grub prompt.
It may help to know whether that's a grub> prompt or a grub rescue> prompt. The latter takes a bit more work to recover from. Whichever, does typing ls produce a listing of some sort? Basically, you have to look around to find the bits of Grub that you need to load, find the kernel and initrd, and then boot them. > I suspect that this is why, when I boot from the USB stick in BIOS > compatibility mode the resulting installation doesn't work. > > Any ideas what I need to do to get the USB stick to boot properly in > USB mode? > > The hardware is a Fujitsu Esprimo Q957 system with a 2Gb NVME disk > drive. Installation on a quite similar Fujitsu Esprimo Q556 system > goes without a hitch (though that only has SATA drives). Cheers, David.
