I have the above mini shipped with win 11. I have upgraded the SSD sticks, I always run my OS installations silently with an autounattend.xml. I have the latest bios update for the pc installed. Issue I'm having if I use my usb stick which is correctly formatted for UEFI GPT the OS installation loops from the first reboot & continues to do so! I have ensured efisys.bin is in place within the boot dir. If I use this stick on another PC it surely shows "Press any key to boot from CD/DVD" as it should. I have Secure boot disabled in bios though if enabled it does the same? Has anyone experienced this & a possible solution?
After the initial install when computer reboots remove the USB drive and the install will continue with out interruptions.
Yes correct, though prefer a fully automated solution as when windows installs it then installs my third party apps too.
Minisforum Tech support response Dear Customer, Thank you for contacting us. Have you tried pressing F7 repeatedly during startup to enter the boot menu? Could your installation USB drive boot normally from there? Best regards, Xavier Minisforum Technical Support Tea I don't have any problem with the mini recognizing the usb windows will install, just want to know how invoke/enforce efisys.bin so after each reboot this message appears?
Ok I think I may have found the problem it appears to be in the Bios CPU config pages all were by default enabled, have now disabled these & has sorted my reboot looping issue. I always had secure boot disabled. Made no difference if it was enabled or not. Hope it helps someone else that has experienced this issue!