Bug#1054459: debian-installer: Debian 12.2 amd64 netinst failes to find a kernel image for a Dell 7812
Hi David,
On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 10:02:44PM -0700, David George Henderson III wrote:
>Package: debian-installer
>Version: debian installer found on amd64 12.2 netinst.iso
>Severity: important
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>
>I have several systems and have experienced this difficulty only with the
>Dell 7812 with an Xeon E5 CPU.
>
>The debian 12.2.0 amd64 netinst.iso boots normally and seems to start
>normally.
> When it gets to finding a kernel to install, it complains that it cannot
>find a suitable kernel.
>
>I had the same results with debian 12.2 adm64 dvd-1.iso and dlbd-1.iso
That's very odd. I can't reproduce this here in simple testing in a
VM, and there shouldn't be anything system-specific here.
Could you please test again and grab the installer syslog for us?
That'll help us to see what's going wrong here.
> When I booted the debian 12.2 amd64 live.iso system, its installer ran OK.
>I am running on the system installed from the live installer right now. This
>is what made the lspci.
>
>I also successfully managed to perform a dist-upgrade from an install of
>debian 11.6.
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