I have a Microsoft Surface Pro 6 tablet with a cleanly installed Pop!_OS (Ubuntu) installed with keyboard attached and no other changes to the OS. I would like to install Debian on the Surface Pro. Secure boot is off when I checked "mokutil --sb-state" on the Surface Pro and also in the Microsoft UEFI menu. There is no disk encryption. There is just the usual user login screen with password. I have the Microsoft Surface UEFI menu set to boot from USB. I get a warning "Something wrong has happened." when trying to boot from the Debian install USB. Then the screen goes black. I tried GRUB, but I might not be setting it up correctly. I have "debian-live-12.5.0-amd64-gnome.iso" installed on the SanDisk USB (123 GB) and used "StartUp Disk Creator" for Ubuntu. There was a test button in that app and I pressed it. The screen for the Debian installation menu popped up in QEMU. Balena Etcher and the commands "dd" and "cp" in the terminal of another Pop!_OS (Ubuntu) system I have been using to flash the USB did not work. All of these attempts have resulted in the same error message and black screen.
Would it be safe to delete the Pop!_OS partition and start over? If not, what else can I try?
Would it be safe to delete the Pop!_OS partition and start over? If not, what else can I try?
Statistics: Posted by rte66 — 2024-06-25 22:43 — Replies 1 — Views 45