Thanks, after messing with it for quite awhile, I finally got it to work with the standard ISO.
I booted with the Arch live image and did: wipefs -a /dev/nvme0n1 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nvme0n1 bs=512 count=100000 then I used efibootmgr to delete all existing entries. Once I did that, the netinst booted into the installer immediately. Not sure if it was the actual existence of valid partitions on the drive, or just the existence of EFI entries in the table. I can further test to see which scenario it is. I would still consider this a bug? ------- Original Message ------- On Saturday, November 19th, 2022 at 07:48, Andrew M.A. Cater <amaca...@einval.com> wrote: > > > Rob - see below, you might want to subscribe to the bug too. > > Suggestion is to use firmware .iso and a more verbose dd line to ensure > you've actually written the whole image correctly. > > Also, I would suggest enabling TPM and secure boot unless you are absolutely > sure that you don't need them. Secure boot is well supported in Debian. > > Hope this helps, > > Andy Cater > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 08:33:29PM +0100, Franco Martelli wrote: > > > On 17/11/22 at 23:11, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 04:46:30PM -0500, Rob Klingsten wrote: > > > > > > > Package: cdrom > > > > Severity: important > > > > Tags: d-i > > > > > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > > > > > *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where > > > > appropriate *** > > > > > > > > * What led up to the situation? > > > > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > > > > ineffective)? > > > > * What was the outcome of this action? > > > > * What outcome did you expect instead? > > > > > > > > *** End of the template - remove these template lines *** > > > > > > > > Downloaded debian-11.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso, verified SHA512 signature > > > > and flashed to USB stick (dd if=<debian.iso> of=/dev/sdb). The > > > > Dell Optiplex 5090 is a UEFI-only system. In the BIOS, I previously > > > > disabled TPM, Secure Boot and Absolute (computer Lojack). > > > > > > > > Booting from the netinst USB stick, the computer boots into the Grub > > > > CLI. 'ls' shows the following: > > > > > > > > (proc) (hd0) (hd0,gpt4) (hd0,gpt3) (hd0,gpt2) (hd0,gpt1) (cd0) > > > > (cd0,msdos2) > > > > > > > > There does not appear to be any usable partition detected on the USB > > > > stick that contains a kernel. The contents of (cd0,msdos2) are > > > > just an 'efi' directory. > > > > > > > > I have tried multiple USB sticks, downloaded the ISO several times all > > > > with a good SHA512, tried dd and also cp <iso> /dev/sdb, makes > > > > no difference. I've tried the live Gnome image as well, same problem. > > > > > > > > I expect the computer to boot properly into the Debian installer. > > > > > > First of all: > > > > > > It may be better to use a longer dd line and also to use the unofficial > > > firmware image available at > > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/11.5.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-cd/firmware-11.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso > > > > > > dd if=firmware-11.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M oflag=sync > > > status=progress > > > > > > That makes absolutely sure that the transfer is synced to ensure that it > > > is > > > written to the stick and also gives you some idea of how well the transfer > > > is going. > > > > > > Using the firmware .iso will potentially solve any problems with missing > > > firmwware. > > > > > > The writing to a stick should work well. > > > > > > All the very best, as ever, > > > > > > Andy Cater > > > > I'm not sure but maybe Rob Klingsten is not on the list so I'm not sure that > > he has read your reply please consider to re-send your answer to > > 1024...@bugs.debian.org > > > > kind regards > > -- > > Franco Martelli
