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Have you tested the media (DVD/USB) you are using to try to installl Bodhi on another computer?
Had you verified the download before writing to the DVE/USB?
Have you accessed the BIOS setup to change the boot options to set your media to first boot priority?
When you attempt to boot Bodhi, what specifically happens? ANy messages on screen, just a black screen? More details.
The Asus T100T (Intel Atom Bay Trail-T Z3775, 2 GiB RAM less shared mem) as a cheapest notebook has a 32 bit UEFI.
Not installable:
32-bit Linux distributions
64-bit Linux distributions
Installable:
64-bit Linux distributions with integrated 32 bit UEFI boot loader
Only few distributions offer this, sometimes more, sometimes less, Bodhi Linux obviously not.
You now have the choice to use a distribution that comes with a 32 bit UEFI boot loader. Or you can integrate such a bootloader yourself. This isn't easy for the inexperienced. But isorespin.sh can do most of the work, provided you already have a Ubuntu-based (or Debian-based, maybe) system to build.
Another personal word:
I know Bodhi Linux, I recommended it 6...7 years ago, especially for non-PAE systems. But Jeff Hoogland is not reliable for a long time. His unique selling point at that time (Bodhi on ARM-based Samsung Chromebook) was cancelled overnight. The users stood in the rain. He already left his own distribution (x86), came back later, then forked e17 as Moksha, it's all hanging again. One (1!) other developer said in June that he wanted to continue maintaining Moksha/Bodhi. But you don't see anything.
There would be other possibilities for your resource-poor notebook.
yancek:
-Tested the USB on my main laptop. Worked fine so there's nothing wrong with the USB stick
-Works on another laptop and downloaded from the official Bodhi website so doubt it's that
-Yes, changed the boot options
-No messages, no black screen just boots straight to Windows
colorpurple21859:
Hadn't thought of disabling fastboot but when I checked the settings it was already disabled. It's not available in the bios settings, only the windows settings.
tdrsam, approving of my postings took 23 hours...I have only registered here for giving support for your issue.
Today I've try isorespin.sh in an LBionic64-VM with an LDisco64-Image (isorespin.sh 8.2.8 supports until Ubuntu-based 19.04). If you only want to add the 32 bit bootloader, run through the routine quickly, assuming sufficient resources (CPU cores, RAM, SSD).
But there are many more possibilities (adding packages, removing packages, adding static packages, adding local files, etc.).
Then, of course, it takes longer to specify the right one. You should save the logfile under a different name. It will be overwritten every time.
The whole thing is graphically or non-graphically possible.
On the first run, I wanted to purge a package that is definitely included. There was an error. Abort, no skip.
Further tests have been done. The new image is larger by ~200 MiB on my runs despite removing larger packages. So it is packed worse. Well good.
In the new image both EFI bootloaders, 32 and 64 bit, are available, CSM booting is still possible. Whether everything boots correctly, I cann't say at the moment. I don't have a UEFI32 notebook and we in the company (an IT service store) usually don't either.
I thought I posted a reply to this thread but I've just realised it's not here. Anyway, here's an update;
I tried Arch, Debian, Mint and Puppy (Bionic & Xenial) but none of those would load at all.
The only distros that'll load are MxLinux and AntiX but neither of those will connect to the wifi.
I'm hoping to find a lightweight distro as there's very little storage on this laptop.
Does anyone know any distros that might load on my machine?
Depending on your wireless hardware, this may be a problem with all distros.
Right. Therefore the threadstarter should use isorespin.sh, meaningfully for Lubuntu x64. The appropriate driver package will be integrated into the image. I don't recommend this for nothing.
Btw., is inxi integrated in antiX-/MX-Linux-Images? inxi doesn't exist in every distribution, e.g. not in various arch-based ones, only via AUR. But it doesn't have to be inxi just for identification. Especially if he has to install it first w/o net. 8-)
tdrsam, for installation of needed packages w/o WLAN you could use an adapter USB 2.0 to RJ45-100-Mb/s-LAN (~10 EUR/USD). USB 2.0 because its drivers (asix) are usually included, USB3.x/1Gb/s not yet.
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