Bug#1055806: installation-reports: Installer doesn't recognize laptop's SSD, but calamares does

2023-11-12 Thread Pokoz Martinez 
Hi Cyril and Pascal,

Thank you both for the fast response.

Cyril, I have just tested the .iso you attached to the bug report you
referred to, and indeed that installer detects my UFS disk no problem!

Thank you again so much for the fast response and for all the work you do.
I will rest assured now that this problem is known, and hopefully this
report also contributed my small grain of sand to the Debian effort!!

I hope you have a great rest of day,

Jessie.

On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 10:42 PM Cyril Brulebois  wrote:

> Hi Pascal,
>
> Please use reply-all…
>
> Pascal Hambourg  (2023-11-11):
> > On 11/11/2023 à 21:43, Jessie wrote:
> > >
> > > However, when detecting disks, the only disk available for install
> > > was the usb drive I had the installer on - it did not detect the
> > > 256gb UFS SSD.
> >
> > It looks like UFS (Universal Flash Storage, not Unix filesystem) kernel
> > modules are not included in d-i initrd or udebs.
>
> Hi Jessie, and thanks for reporting.
>
> See , which I have yet to forward to
> kernel maintainers.
>
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)
> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
>

Bug#1055806: installation-reports: Installer doesn't recognize laptop's SSD, but calamares does

2023-11-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois 
Hi Pascal,

Please use reply-all…

Pascal Hambourg  (2023-11-11):
> On 11/11/2023 à 21:43, Jessie wrote:
> > 
> > However, when detecting disks, the only disk available for install
> > was the usb drive I had the installer on - it did not detect the
> > 256gb UFS SSD.
> 
> It looks like UFS (Universal Flash Storage, not Unix filesystem) kernel
> modules are not included in d-i initrd or udebs.

Hi Jessie, and thanks for reporting.

See , which I have yet to forward to
kernel maintainers.


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant


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Bug#1055806: installation-reports: Installer doesn't recognize laptop's SSD, but calamares does

2023-11-11 Thread Pascal Hambourg 

On 11/11/2023 à 21:43, Jessie wrote:


However, when detecting disks, the only disk available for install was the usb 
drive I had the installer on - it did not detect the 256gb UFS SSD.


It looks like UFS (Universal Flash Storage, not Unix filesystem) kernel 
modules are not included in d-i initrd or udebs.

Bug#1055806: installation-reports: Installer doesn't recognize laptop's SSD, but calamares does

2023-11-11 Thread Jessie 
Package: installation-reports
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: pokozmarti...@gmail.com

(Please provide enough information to help the Debian
maintainers evaluate the report efficiently - e.g., by filling
in the sections below.)

Boot method: USB
Image version: Debian Bookworm Stable Live 12.2 XFCE  
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-12.2.0-amd64-xfce.iso
  from 2023-10-07 11:29
Date: 2023-11-09 06:33:45.0 -0300

Machine: Laptop ASUS Vivobook GO E1504GA-NJ008W, 8-core Intel Core i3-N305
Partitions:

Output from df -a:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
sysfs  00 0- /sys
proc   00 0- /proc
udev 38251560   3825156   0% /dev
devpts 00 0- /dev/pts
tmpfs 774328 1996772332   1% /run
/dev/sda6  201300212 12421404 178580544   7% /
securityfs 00 0- /sys/kernel/security
tmpfs38716360   3871636   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs   51208  5112   1% /run/lock
cgroup200 0- /sys/fs/cgroup
pstore 00 0- /sys/fs/pstore
efivarfs 192  11276  60% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
bpf00 0- /sys/fs/bpf
systemd-1  -- -- /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
mqueue 00 0- /dev/mqueue
debugfs00 0- /sys/kernel/debug
hugetlbfs  00 0- /dev/hugepages
tracefs00 0- /sys/kernel/tracing
fusectl00 0- /sys/fs/fuse/connections
configfs   00 0- /sys/kernel/config
ramfs  00 0- 
/run/credentials/systemd-sysctl.service
ramfs  00 0- 
/run/credentials/systemd-sysusers.service
ramfs  00 0- 
/run/credentials/systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
tmpfs3871636   16   3871620   1% /tmp
/dev/sda1 26214479652182492  31% /boot/efi
ramfs  00 0- 
/run/credentials/systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
binfmt_misc00 0- /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
tmpfs 774324   72774252   1% /run/user/1000
portal 00 0- /run/user/1000/doc

And also here below the result from lsblk:
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda  8:00 238,4G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:10   260M  0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2   8:2016M  0 part 
├─sda3   8:30  40,9G  0 part 
├─sda4   8:40   900M  0 part 
├─sda5   8:50   260M  0 part 
└─sda6   8:60 196,1G  0 part /


Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:   [O]
Detect network card:[E]
Configure network:  [E]
Detect media:   [E]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Clock/timezone setup:   [ ]
User/password setup:[ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives:  [ ]
Install base system:[ ]
Install tasks:  [ ]
Install boot loader:[ ]
Overall install:[ ]

Comments/Problems:

When trying to install using the debian non-graphical installer, initial boot 
went fine, network card was not detected due to the kernel not supporting it 
(mediatek 7902) but using a wired connection let me connect to internet and 
pass that step.

However, when detecting disks, the only disk available for install was the usb 
drive I had the installer on - it did not detect the 256gb UFS SSD.
The SSD had a partition with windows 11 (which I shrunk to leave free space for 
the debian). I disabled Secure Boot and Fast Start on the UEFI BIOS, and still 
the debian installer didn't see the SSD.

I tried booting from the Live XFCE version of debian 12 stable, and 
surprisingly, once on the Live system it detected the windows partition (it 
showed up on the desktop as an encrypted drive) and when running the calamares 
installer, it detected the SSD. Thanks to this I was able to install debian.
So, using the same debian ISO (the one from the link I put here when prompted), 
the debian installer couldn't see the SSD, but calamares from Debian Live 
detected the SSD.

Apart from the Debian 12 Live Xfce image, I also tried the testing image 
installer, as well as the image that has the developing version of the 
installer and that installs debian 13 testing (trixie).
None of the installers, no matter the image, detected my SSD.

Please make sure that any installation logs that you think would
be useful are attached to this report. (You can find them in the
installer system in /var/log/ and later on the installed system
under /var/log/installer.) Please