I suspect this is not really EOS related, though my most recent install attempt was with an EOS USB. This laptop was wiped of Windows. It’s since had a total of 3 Linux distros installed (Fedora 39, CachyOS, and LMDE). It currently has LMDE installed. I was going to install EOS Gnome. Each time I set boot priority in BIOS to the PNY USB drive, it boots into LMDE. Even stranger, this laptop ony has one USB drive, but shows 2 PNY USB drives in BIOS boot priority. Ideas?
I also tried with the previous Fedora and CachyOS USB’s to be sure it wasn’t a USB thumbdrive issue as those 2 are already proven to work.
Getting ready to leave for work. Post back quickly to say I had time to re-write the ISO to USB using KDE ISO Image Writer. Same issue persists. My BIOS may just be screwed up. The only options I have in BIOS are what is shown in the various BIOS images I’ve posted.
I’ll attempt some tinkering when I get home this evening. Appreciate the assistance thus far.
As much as everyone say’s etcher is not the right tool or otherwise that is nonsense i use it all the time and have never had an issue with it but what ever! In your Bios menu if you are giving it the option to boot debian and for what ever reason it isn’t booting on the live ISO it’s going to go to the next item in the list which is the debian installation. You need to disable boot option 3,4 and 5 and see whether it picks up on Boot option 1 or 2. In that case you may have an issue with the creation of the live ISO but i have no way of knowing that. You’ll have to try creating another live ISO and try booting it again. You don’t need to have a boot option in all of them if you are only trying to boot on the live ISO. Afterwards you can set that when it’s installed. You also don’t need what they call pixie boot unless booting from a network.
@ricklinux I’ve never had issues with Etcher either. As I said earlier, those USBs work fine on my PC, and I’ve since tried on my old HP laptop. I can get to the live environment of all the USBs those other machines. So it’s not the ISOs.
As for the boot priority in BIOS, there is no disable option, nor can I leave an option blank.
Once I get home from work tonight, I’ll see if I can dig deeper. But that BIOS set up is sparse.
Your Bios up to date with the latest ‘BIOS’ software? You can reset your bios to default factory settings also, But after it boots up you’ve got to reset your time and some of the parameters you want to keep as to what the system boots off of.
Exactly what I mean by sparse. I don’t even know if there’s a CSM option available, I sure didn’t see it. Unless it’s some Samsung terminology. No problem booting into the installed LMDE, though. It recognized the USB at time of LMDE install. I’ll just do some investigating when I get home tonight.
