Peter BindelsI installed Windows.
First thing it did was prevent me from running said firmware updater.
So am I right in understanding that the Windows install ISO does not work from a USB stick?
What decade are we in? All Linux installers I've used in the past decade just work.
Billy O'Neal@dascandy42 It works from a USB stick just fine. I have seen 'a driver is missing' type scenarios before that have all been related to:
1. You have Intel VMD turned on in your BIOS but haven't loaded the VMD specific driver, which is unfortunately not in the box. I don't know the details but in my testing Linux (PartedMagic) somehow speaks ACPI/NVMe despite the BIOS being in VMD mode. Which is good because it just works but is bad because it can corrupt VMD volumes.
2. You have the TPM disabled in the BIOS and are installing an edition of Windows that requires enabling device encryption.
@malwareminigun Neither of those; it was related to something specifically between my bios and the Windows setup.
I have no Intel VMD in my AMD system.
I was using Windows 10 because of the TPM stuff.
Oliver Schönrockis this a follow up on our "ideapad" adventure from last week?
@oschonrock No, unrelated. Firmware update is now done (after 4.5 hours of wrestling with Windows installers and 20 minutes of firmware flashing), so back to normality.
wow.. well done.. I have avoided it.. couldn't face it.. knew it would be half a day.
did you manage to boot windoze
off USB in the end?
@oschonrock It did work. Just about the last attempt before I was going to "call a friend". @janwilmans linked me https://itsfoss.com/bootable-windows-usb-linux/ which tells you to use Ventoy, which apparently allows it to boot from EFI, and breaks the argument between the EFI/Bios and Windows setup.
great to know
I 'll save that reference in case I get reallllly bored over xmas
@oschonrock No wait, partially related. I had myself confused with my laptop and desktop and thought I needed Windows for the BIOS as well. Desktop has an Asrock mobo and they just give you a file to put on a fat32 usb stick. Could've done that any point in the past 3 years...
Yeah.. that's the way.. !
why do we need a whole 64bit GUI and GBs of OS to write some stuff to to flash on the MB?
@oschonrock you forgot Cortana, online logins and uploading whatever it can get its hands on.
@oschonrock First time I've had to unplug a network cable to be able to continue installing.