On Thu, 2019-06-20 at 23:17 +0000, John L. Males wrote: > Lou, > > I cannot access any console if I choose the LiveCD image option. > > As I have indicated with Buster 10 Testing I cannot boot to the > Live Image on either machine I have. This means I cannot > access the other TTY consoles. > > With Stretch 9.x I can boot to the Live Image on the two > machines if I "play a dance" in what 9.x image I choose to > use. In all cases I can boot to all the other splash screen > boot choices with Buster 10 Testing and Stretch 9.x. > > I can boot to Live image with Lubuntu and Xubuntu 15.04, > 16.04, 18.04, 19.04, Linux Mint, Knoppix and Debian 8 Jessie to > name just a few with no problems/issues. This strongly suggests > to me that starting with Debian Stretch 9 and continuing with > Debian Buster 10 that there not only has been a change in how > the Live Image is created or configured.
Just to rule out one other possible source of problems: How are you writing the live image to your USB media ? Are you using standard linux utilities, or are you possibly downloading and/or writing the USB stick from some other operating system ? I have seen other problems with installation/live media from this source.