I have an old Asus 2 in 1, which has windoze installed and I use it with Resilio as my own personal cloud.
Trying to boot from USB, it boots from the installed windoze, though I have a menu:
Windows
XYZ USB
Setting (or something to enter Bios)
I select the USB, but it takes a moment then boots Windoze.
I copied the ISO to USB using dd command and it went fine.
This is my machine:
System Manufacturer
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
System Model
T100TAL
System Type
X86-based PC
System SKU
ASUS-TabletSKU
Processor
Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU Z3735D @ 1.33GHz, 1329 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date
American Megatrends Inc. T100TAL.209, Tuesday, 21, Oct
SMBIOS Version 2.7
Embedded Controller Version
255.255
BIOS Mode
UEFI
BaseBoard Manufacturer ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
And this is the ISO:
endeavouros-2021.08.27-x86_64.iso
Does it boot windoze because this ISO is “beyond” the machine power?
Any guidance highly appreciated.
P.S. I burnt several times and different USB sticks. Still same!
Thanks a lot @dalto . Instant replies as usual. I didnt even have the chance to read what I posted
But I believe it is not a problem.
Anyway, I tried to disable from BIOS, I got something windoze asking for key. (as if it skipped the USB and went to windoze)
Like what? What to do about it?
You know, having a windoze thing really irritates me, though it is RIP under a desk where I cant even see it.
As far as I can remember I installed on this laptop I’m using now which had windoze on it, and from a USB, (can’t honestly remember what I did with the EFI/UEFI/Secure Boot stuff), but it actually booted from USB.
So, I don’t know why not this machine is skipping to windoze whether secure boot enabled or disabled.
Because that is what happens when secure boot is enabled. It tries to boot off the USB but can’t because it isn’t signed. It then looks for somewhere else to boot and find the installed copy of windows.
I tried disabling secure boot, it took me again to windoze thing asking for key. Then a few trials, something flashed in my old head.
I think long ago when I got it I knew something like the OS is not on the disk it is on a chip (SoC), which means -I think- it is impossible to over write the operating system!
Maybe that’s why I was kept away from Linux all that time.
I guess the processor is 64 bit then. When you try to disable secure boot it’s asking for keys? Is there another setting somewhere to remove the keys first?
Not I know of! This machine from what I read from the links has something “special”. It is not a standard machine.
I thought of something “evil” that will either make it or break it.
I go to the windows system folders and delete it, so it wont have windoze to boot… but I am worried it is a SoC so won’t make difference. So, mostly it will break it