Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 2023-06-26 at 22:42 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 at 17:19, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
> 
> > "
> > and, of course, after that procedure, in the system UEFI/BIOS, change
> > the boot order to
> > 
> > USB drive
> > Optical (eg, DVD) drive (if the computer has one)
> > HDD
> > 
> > so that the computer should attempt to boot from the respective drives,
> > in that order.
> > "
> 
> Re this -- here is a good guide to the complexities I recently came across.
> 
> https://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/csm-good-bad-ugly.html
> 
> As a fan of retro OSes, I disagree with its conclusions, but the
> reasoning is sound.

Hi,

this article much likely becomes more and more irrelevant. The GPU of my
13th Gen Intel Core i3-13100, doesn't allow to enable CSM. The mobo's
firmware provides CSM, but it can only be enabled, when using another
GPU. However, some of my vintage installs don't run on my new hardware.
Similar things had happened before, but the causes were quickly apparent
and remediable, e.g. an old Suse install requires an ext3 partition, it
cannot use an ext4 partition. Nowadays the causes of problems are not so
easy to find, maybe not to solve anymore. I stopped trying to get some
vintage installs to run on my new computer.

Regards,
Ralf