Bug#1055806: installation-reports: Installer doesn't recognize laptop's SSD, but calamares does
Package: installation-reports
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: pokozmartinez@gmail.com
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Boot method: USB
Image version: Debian Bookworm Stable Live 12.2 XFCE https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-12.2.0-amd64-xfce.iso from 2023-10-07 11:29
Date: 2023-11-09 06:33:45.000000000 -0300
Machine: Laptop ASUS Vivobook GO E1504GA-NJ008W, 8-core Intel Core i3-N305
Partitions:
Output from df -a:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
sysfs 0 0 0 - /sys
proc 0 0 0 - /proc
udev 3825156 0 3825156 0% /dev
devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
tmpfs 774328 1996 772332 1% /run
/dev/sda6 201300212 12421404 178580544 7% /
securityfs 0 0 0 - /sys/kernel/security
tmpfs 3871636 0 3871636 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5120 8 5112 1% /run/lock
cgroup2 0 0 0 - /sys/fs/cgroup
pstore 0 0 0 - /sys/fs/pstore
efivarfs 192 112 76 60% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
bpf 0 0 0 - /sys/fs/bpf
systemd-1 - - - - /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
mqueue 0 0 0 - /dev/mqueue
debugfs 0 0 0 - /sys/kernel/debug
hugetlbfs 0 0 0 - /dev/hugepages
tracefs 0 0 0 - /sys/kernel/tracing
fusectl 0 0 0 - /sys/fs/fuse/connections
configfs 0 0 0 - /sys/kernel/config
ramfs 0 0 0 - /run/credentials/systemd-sysctl.service
ramfs 0 0 0 - /run/credentials/systemd-sysusers.service
ramfs 0 0 0 - /run/credentials/systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
tmpfs 3871636 16 3871620 1% /tmp
/dev/sda1 262144 79652 182492 31% /boot/efi
ramfs 0 0 0 - /run/credentials/systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
binfmt_misc 0 0 0 - /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
tmpfs 774324 72 774252 1% /run/user/1000
portal 0 0 0 - /run/user/1000/doc
And also here below the result from lsblk:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 238,4G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 260M 0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2 8:2 0 16M 0 part
├─sda3 8:3 0 40,9G 0 part
├─sda4 8:4 0 900M 0 part
├─sda5 8:5 0 260M 0 part
└─sda6 8:6 0 196,1G 0 part /
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card: [E]
Configure network: [E]
Detect media: [E]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Clock/timezone setup: [ ]
User/password setup: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install tasks: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Overall install: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
When trying to install using the debian non-graphical installer, initial boot went fine, network card was not detected due to the kernel not supporting it (mediatek 7902) but using a wired connection let me connect to internet and pass that step.
However, when detecting disks, the only disk available for install was the usb drive I had the installer on - it did not detect the 256gb UFS SSD.
The SSD had a partition with windows 11 (which I shrunk to leave free space for the debian). I disabled Secure Boot and Fast Start on the UEFI BIOS, and still the debian installer didn't see the SSD.
I tried booting from the Live XFCE version of debian 12 stable, and surprisingly, once on the Live system it detected the windows partition (it showed up on the desktop as an encrypted drive) and when running the calamares installer, it detected the SSD. Thanks to this I was able to install debian.
So, using the same debian ISO (the one from the link I put here when prompted), the debian installer couldn't see the SSD, but calamares from Debian Live detected the SSD.
Apart from the Debian 12 Live Xfce image, I also tried the testing image installer, as well as the image that has the developing version of the installer and that installs debian 13 testing (trixie).
None of the installers, no matter the image, detected my SSD.
Please make sure that any installation logs that you think would
be useful are attached to this report. (You can find them in the
installer system in /var/log/ and later on the installed system
under /var/log/installer.) Please compress large files using gzip.
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