Installing Debian 7.3 on Uefi, using latest Netinst ISO

[Kelly Prescott]

The reason I suggest the grml image, is it usually talks for me and you 
can install Debian with it.  It is a bit of a manual procedure, but it is 
not all that bad.

If you decide to dual boot, install your windows 8 first, then do your 
Linux install...
I have seen the windows 8 installer trash a linux install...
I am not sure if it was my fault or not, but I know Linux will not trash 
windows 8.
Also, you can setup your grub to boot either OS.


On Sun, 12 Jan 2014, Kelly Prescott wrote:

> 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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