Hi Steve,
The Supermicro system that created the netinst flash drive image is a xeon with ecc; its root filesystem system is a btrfs raid1 mirror pair.
I did not verify the checksum of the netinst image after copying to
flash. My bad because recreating the image on the Supermicro resulted in
the install now running to completion on the Dell 7812.
I created about 4 installs to different partition sets to try and
reproduce the bug to generate a log file with the failure. None of them
failed.
this bugreport should be closed as 'unable to reproduce'
I regret the erroneous bugreport and will use the experience to check more carefully in the future.
David
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.isoThat'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.