I tried the debian-wheezy-amd64-efi-test4.iso on a Mac Mini 2011 using a USB stick, and it looks like it's in good shape. The only problem I had was that eventually, my install wouldn't boot, but I might have forgotten to set the bootable flag. But other than that, I could boot to the installer, and the install process kept going without hitting any errors. One little note: I saw two volumes in Mac's EFI when booting it while pressing the option key; I think they were labeled "Windows" and "EFI". I only tried booting from the one labeled "Windows" and it worked.

However, what I'm really interested in is trying GNU/kFreeBSD. How much of this EFI related work will transpose easily to GNU/kFreeBSD?

Tried this one on the Thinkpad as a clean install.

No regressions - all good.

Thanks for doing this work, just tested the cd on my iMac 2010 and it works as expected. Unfortunately I couldn't install Debian because I have a pppoe network connection and the cd only expects dhcp. If you could add the pppoe stuff to the next release it would be great (although I know this is not part of your work).

Hi,

Just installed from CD on Asus P8Z77V and Intel 3570K, Booting using EFI, works fine, but there is no boot splash screen, just console output rolling by.

Where and what should I be looking at to get splash screen whilst booting?

Thanks for the test installer

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I'm not a very experienced debian installer and I fail to get this to work.

When I run the installer (version 4) the installer still wants to install grub or lilo to mbr. Is the modified installation hidden in one of those procedures or is that I get that a indication of a problem?

This is on a Intel S5000XVN motherboard. This has a quite early version of efi and seems to have a rather limited set of configuration regarding booting media in efi or mbr mode. Could the problem be related to this?

TY! For the last few months I have been trying to get Linux on my Apple MBP 5,1. It's the one with the strange Geforce 9400m chipset, and the 9600m GT video card. When I hand created my efi bootup, and booted debian I had a garbled screen. So I set it aside till I had more time.

Tonight I have a working system using your CD image. I have not tried the nvidia drivers yet, so I'm not sure if anything but vesa will work.

Nvidia worked great. No fuss. One thing you might consider is a USB installer script so we can make USB key installers.

Maybe we could also use target disk mode to use our existing install to start the d-i, and install another system? Kickstart?

Mac Pro 2010 installed fine, but the radeon driver dies so bad there is no kernel panic. It just results in a hard lock up.

I was confused at first, so I got a working ssh into the host before using startx. I have used fedora before, so I know the radeon driver /can/ work.

I tried the i386 installer in the Acer Iconia Tab W510 and grub starts but when I select an option, the installer does not start and the screen goes black.

You didn't update the 5th(2013) image here on your blog. Thank you for your amazing work!

Are they ever going to make your installer official? I'm not sure many people know you have solved this problem.

any progress?

Hi,

I just found this as I was looking for a way, to install debian (if possible: wheezy) on my asus x205 Notebook. It has only 32bit UEFI, so it seems not possible to use the normal installer. I used this image: debian-wheezy-i386-efi-test4.iso. After turnuing off 'secure boot' it booted and I could select between 'graphical installer', 'text-mode installer' and 'rescue'. However, after switching to the first screen in each option, it freezed. Should I try the other images? Orshould I wait until you release something for jessie?

Jürgen