Bug#815164: check-missing-firmware can't mount fat32

[Laurent COOPER <laurent.cooper@ac-grenoble.fr>]

HI

Thank you for enquiries

I made the i386 boot key with a 1G usb key, using the dd command

(dd if=debian-8.3.0....i386 of=/dev/sdb bs=4M)

I next use fdisk to create sdb3 and made a fat32 filesystem. Copied on it

- the missing firmware with the deb file
- the missing firmware extrated from debfile in a /firmare subdirectory

check-missing-firmware could not load the ipw2200-bs.fw

I thought it was possibly because it was on sdb3 and not sdb1

I could mount manually the filesystem with mount and read sdb3 although

I copied the same file on a quite large usbstick (4G) with FAT32
filesystem. All was this time on sdc1

didn't work neither

Finally , after reading that fat was a first stage supported, but not
necessaraly fat32, i copied the files again, this time on a small 512M
usb key in FAT.

This third time it worked.

Hope this helps

Regards

Laurent

Le 21/02/2016 21:21, Steve McIntyre a écrit :
> Control: tag -1 +moreinfo
> 
> Hi Laurent,
> 
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 04:40:59PM +0100, Laurent COOPER wrote:
>> Package: debian-installer
>> Version: 20150422+deb8u3
>>
>> What I've done :
>>
>> for installing firmware (for wireless card), I put the on a USB stick
>> nowadays, the vast majority of USB stick is formatted FAT32, wich is
>> almost read by all OS
>>
>> What was expected :
>> check-missing-firmware should have loaded the missing firmware
>>
>> What happened :
>> Nothing
>>
>> I managed the problem by using an old small key and formatting this key
>> in FAT
>>
>> FAT32 support should be used by check-missing-firmware
> 
> I've just tested doing exactly this and things worked OK for me,
> booting from a netinst on a USB stick. Can you tell us more? How did
> you boot, etc.?
>