Installing #Debian 13 (trixie) on 2017-era laptop.

[bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org]

Installing #Debian 13 (trixie) on 2017-era laptop. Hardware is fine, but was built when #UEFI was barely supported yet,but had become standard.

I struggled to boot after install (yes, I used UEFI installer).
TIL

Old BIOS's have UEFI/LEGACY/ BOTH setting w/ a CSM Support Bit. Chose UEFI ONLY & CSM NO.

old UEFI NVRAM is *tiny*. Mine was full. Deleting dump-* data wasn't enough. I had to delete 2 esoteric Boot options (such as IDE FDD ) to even change another entry.

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