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Bug#596633: USB install fails



daily build doesn't work - details at end

Christian PERRIER wrote:
tags 596633 moreinfo
thanks

Quoting Miles Fidelman (mfidelman@meetinghouse.net):
Package: installation-reports

Boot method: USB Installer
Image version: download of testing files dated 9/10/10 per USB install instructions
Please use the *daily built* images from
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer....not the alpha1 images.

We know that this pages says "Please first test alpha1 images" but
we're currently in the release preparation step and Alpha1 images are
more or less broken as of now....and testing them anyway doesn't help
that much (yes, we should fix the page...).


Comments/Problems: USB installer could not find .iso image

After booting, the installer starts up, but when it gets to the point of
looking for a .iso image, it reports mounting and scanning both my hard
drives (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb) and the usb stick (/dev/sdc1) - but then
reports not finding any .iso files.  It then asks if I want to do a more
thorough search - which exhibits the same failure.

As far as I can tell, by escaping to a shell, it has mounted the USB
stick (as /hd-media) and there's a .iso image listed under /hd-media.

Not sure that daily builds fix this. If they do, we'll close the
bug. If they don't, we have an RC issue..:-)

Just tried with the daily build - using
vmlinuz dated 9/13/10 10:04 from http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/vmlinuz initrd.gz dated 9/13/10 10:04 from http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/initrd.gz mini.iso dated 9/13/10 10:04 from http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/mini.iso

installer starts up, gives the standard language selection, etc., then:
- error: no .iso found
- continue to menu, tell it to look for iso, I can see it mount both hard disks and USB stick (both /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdc); then comes back with the same error and asks if I want to do a more thorough search, answer yes
- comes back with "failed to find an installer iso image"

tried to save debug logs to mounted file system, it gave me /hd-media as default, continued - got "installation step failed" message, with no further details

exit to shell, ls /hd-media - sure looks like the USB stick, with mini.iso showing; seems like the stick is mounted ro, remounted as rw

back to installer, saved debug log - step completed (seemingly) successfully - but there's no debug log on the stick, nor can I find anything that looks like a debug log anywhere










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