Bug#864715: USB netinst fails to identify /media/cdrom as a path for base system packages or /cdrom mounting
Package: installation-reports
On running the installer manually from inside the OEM Windows installed,
everything appeared to run smoothly up to the reboot following partition
and formatting of the machines drives. On that boot the installer now
running off the HDD began looping at the "Install base system" step, no
errors or other signs of trouble - just display the progress bar for a
few mins, then flick out to the step-by-step listing as if that step was
done - but highlighting the same "Install base system" entry every time
enter was pressed to start the step.
Manually going to the next step on the list failed with a message about
the base system not being fully present.
Skipping to the shell for manual inspection showed that the path /cdrom
was being searched for the image packages but non-existent already
(expected after install is complete, but not halfway through). Since
this was a USB based install the netinst image had been loaded as
/media/cdrom, and /dev/cdrom was not a mountable device since the CD/DVD
drive did not have a disk.
Manually creating a symlink "ln -s /media/cdrom /cdrom" allowed the
installer to continue and successfully install the system.
NP: if this is not already fixed in the latest 1-2 installer versions it
really should be handled for Stretch. This has a high potential for
newbies "bricking" their machines since they will not readily know the
manual fix necessary.
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: netinst image on a USB drive, run from Windows 7
Image version: unknown sorry, downloaded from Debian mirrors 2017-05-12
Date: 2017-05-21
Machine: Dell
Processor: Intel Celeron (64-bit quad-core)
Memory: 4GB
Partitions:
ilesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev devtmpfs 10240 0 10240 0% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 400936 46044 354892 12% /run
/dev/dm-0 ext4 149393716 12988176 128793740 10% /
tmpfs tmpfs 1002340 0 1002340 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs tmpfs 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
tmpfs tmpfs 1002340 0 1002340 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn):
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM
Controller [8086:2e10] (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PCI
Express Root Port [8086:2e11] (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 4 Series
Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2e12] (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset
Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2e13] (rev 03)
00:03.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 4 Series
Chipset HECI Controller [8086:2e14] (rev 03)
00:03.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PT IDER
Controller [8086:2e16] (rev 03)
00:03.3 Serial controller [0700]: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset
Serial KT Controller [8086:2e17] (rev 03)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82567LM-3 Gigabit
Network Connection [8086:10de] (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10
Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:3a67] (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10
Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:3a68] (rev 02)
00:1a.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10
Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 [8086:3a69] (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10
Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:3a6c] (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family)
HD Audio Controller [8086:3a6e] (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family)
PCI Express Port 1 [8086:3a70] (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family)
PCI Express Port 2 [8086:3a72] (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10
Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:3a64] (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10
Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:3a65] (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10
Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:3a66] (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10
Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:3a6a] (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge
[8086:244e] (rev a2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801JDO (ICH10DO) LPC
Interface Controller [8086:3a14] (rev 02)
00:1f.2 RAID bus controller [0104]: Intel Corporation SATA Controller
[RAID mode] [8086:2822] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) SMBus
Controller [8086:3a60] (rev 02)
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card: [O]
Configure network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Install base system: [E]
Clock/timezone setup: [O]
User/password setup: [O]
Install tasks: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Overall install: [O]
Comments/Problems:
Just the one mentioned above. Same image has been used on prior machines
and more recent one no problems. But those were all done starting from a
boot from the USB containing installer image. This attempt seeing issues
is the one and only time OEM's Windows install has needed to be used to
bootstrap the installation process.
Cheers
AYJ
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