I created a bootable usb stick using Etcher and booted it to my HP notebook. [ Snapdragon 7c Gen2 @ 2.55GHz; 4 GB memory.] The boot process made it to the set-up screen, with no option shown for booting to the native OS (windows 11.) There it stuck. There are some options to try, but since I am a complete novice on commands, I could not figure out what to do with them- my answer may be in plain sight for all I know. I’m attaching some screen pics to illustrate.
There I am stuck, such that I have to do a hard close to escape the page (s.)
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I’ll take this opportunity to introduce you to Ventoy as an alternative to re-writing USB disks ad infinitum:
Though Ventoy may (or may not) be useful for your current ARM project, it will be invaluable generally for most other purposes.
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Thanks. It appears that Qualcomm is the deal-breaker for noobs like me who would like to try Linux. I’ll have to put up with Windows for a while. I’ve already found an open source alternative for Microsoft Office (Apache Open Office.)
In the OSs Ive tried, I usually get the option of booting the USB or the native OS, such as windows. This time I only had the option of trying to boot the USB- not sure why.
This is a bit of a guess on my part, but I suspect that those other OS’ bootloaders (from the Live USB) ran os-prober at boot whereas it seems the Manjaro ones don’t. (I have never dual-booted with Manjaro, so won’t have seen e.g. a Windows entry anyway).
Are you saying you can’t proceed by selecting the one option shown? You should be able to pick up the Windows GRUB entry following installation and the first update.
I tried Debian: set up the usb stick with Etcher as recommended and tried to boot. I got to the GNU GRUB 2.12-9 page (or console?) Options listed are:
*Install
Graphical install
Advanced options
Accessible dark contrast installation menu
Install with speech synthesis
That is as far as I get; when I hit Enter it just goes back to that page.
Below, a couple of options are presented: e to edit or c for a command line, which I used to “halt.”
My noobishness is such that I don’t know what to try next, as far as edits or commands.
It might be worth buying a few USB disks – preferably not a cheap brand, but one with a generally good reputation – perhaps “Sandisk” for example. Additionally, look for USB3.0 or USB3.1 “standard” types, as anything more recent might not be fit for purpose.
In some instances an older standard USB2.0 disk may often work without a problem while later types don’t. Bizarre, right?!
I did try that, several times. It goes back to the grub page every time. I keep getting the feeling that Ms and HP are relentlessly opposing my success. If I knew the first thing about writing code,I would try some things on the command line. I feel like I’m one step away.
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