Mastodawn

I am having trouble getting Linux (Linux Mint Debian Edition) to boot after installing on a Dell Optiplex 5040 and 3040 models with UEFI booting.

I am pretty sure it would work fine in Legacy mode.

Since UEFI is newer, I am guessing that is the recommendation... but will Linux work fine on Legacy boot with current kernels in the current year? Any reasons or features that I really should have with UEFI? Or is Legacy boot going to be fine?

#UEFI #boot #Linux #Dell #Optiplex #LinuxMint #Debian

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RockyC Mar 4

@matthew I don’t know about those machines in particular, but I do know from experience that older machines didn’t have very good secure boot implementations. Have you tried updating the bios on the machines?

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matthew - retroedge.tech

Thanks. BIOS was updated to the most recent version.

Using Legacy Boot ended up working well for me. I was not able to get UEFI booting working on this Dell Optiplex 5040 with the boot drive in the m.2 slot on the motherboard.

So I just used Legacy Boot and that solved my problem.

#Dell #Optiplex #Linux

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Nu Modular Mar 5

@matthew After reading your post, I loaded Ventoy on an SD card in my laptop, set MX Linux for 2ram Persistence on the hard drive. Now I can load the minimal version of MX, which is less than a gig to RAM, and it asks at the end of every session if I want to save my changes to the hard drive. No writing to the SD card at all. Never thought I had that option.