Installing Debian 7.3 on Uefi, using latest Netinst ISO

[Kelly Prescott]

Ok, here goes...
I use UEFI systems and have no problems with my installers.
Heres is what I would like for you to try to elimnate some problems:
download the grml 64-bit image from http://grml.org
dd it to a USB drive.
go into the setup of your system and disable boot signature checking.
try to boot the USB drive and see if
1:  you hear the 3 tone beep at boot and then 2 if you hear the musical 
notes after the system boots.
if you hear the musical notes, press 'q' and then
type modprobe speakup_soft && espeakup
then see if you get speech.
Let me know how those steps go...
You can email me directly and I could even do a call or chat with you if 
necessary.
-- Kelly Prescott


On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, Marcel Oats wrote:

> Hi, the usual sorry if it's been posted before and all that, I have browsed
> the archives and haven't really found anything, or maybe haven't been looking 
> in
> the right place.
> I have Gigabyte's Z87X-UD5H board in a new system, and want to have linux on
> it as well as Win8.1.  This is the first board we have come across which
> does not feature a legacy boot option; i.e. it only supports efi boot
> partitions, though it will boot to an mbr partition after a lengthy pause.
> I came across this situation before when booting the cd, but we were able to
> boot the disk in legacy mode and give it the S parameter to start speakup
> and install normally on another machine.
> Here I cannot, though I can connect a braille display and use that during
> the install.  When typing s followed by ENTER, the braille is running the
> text installer but there is no speech.
> I understand the EFI boot loader is different and so forth, but am wondering
> if something is not being passed correctly?
> It's just the usual Realtec soundcard and so forth, which seems to be
> supported no problem on other machines, but USB audio doesn't work here
> either, and I remember reading a year or so ago that this part was broken in
> uefi mode; is this correct?
> Interestingly (and I know this doesn't work but actually wonder why) if we
> make a bootable USB with this netinst ISO, the machine boots from that, we
> get the beep, but there is no speech.  The interesting thing, is that if we
> boot it on another machine which comes up talking when I boot the cd on it,
> the USB version of the same installer does not speak.  It works, but no
> speech.
> I'm alright with braille during the install if I have to be, but when
> completed it doesn't speak when the new system is booted, so what is the
> best way of getting speakup running on the system so as I can access the
> CLI?
>
> Thanks for any help.
> Marcel
>
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