Package: installation-reports Boot method: USB stick Image version: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/bookworm_di_alpha2/arm64/iso-cd/debian-bookworm-DI-alpha2-arm64-netinst.iso Date: 2023-03-08 Machine: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3 Processor: ARM Cortex-A53 Memory: 1G Partitions: Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on udev devtmpfs 395476 0 395476 0% /dev tmpfs tmpfs 91436 500 90936 1% /run /dev/mmcblk0p5 ext4 30196596 1749452 26887900 7% / tmpfs tmpfs 457172 0 457172 0% /dev/shm tmpfs tmpfs 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock /dev/mmcblk0p1 vfat 307016 21048 285968 7% /boot/efi tmpfs tmpfs 91432 0 91432 0% /run/user/1000 Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn): n/a 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 media: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Install base system: [O] Clock/timezone setup: [O] User/password setup: [O] Install tasks: [O] Install boot loader: [E] Overall install: [] Comments/Problems: I have tested the Bookworm Alpha 2 installer on a RPi 3B+ in EFI mode. To do so, I first had to add the UEFI Firmware for Raspberry Pi 3 to the SD card onto which I planned to install Debian. The firmware images are available here: https://github.com/pftf/RPi3/releases On another Linux system I created a msdos (not GPT) partition table on the SD card with fdisk: $ sudo fdisk /dev/sdf Created a new partition with 'n', specified it should be primary with 'p', assigned it number '1', First sector '2048', Last sector '+300m'. Changed the partition type with 't', specified hex code 'e' for "W95 FAT16 (LBA)", made it bootable with 'a', saved with 'w'. Then I created a FAT16 filesystem on the partition with: $ sudo mkfs.vfat -F 16 /dev/sdf1 Mounted /dev/sdf1, unzipped RPi3_UEFI_Firmware_v1.38.zip onto it. At this point, the RPi3 was able to boot regular vanilla d-i images from a USB stick. I used debian-bookworm-DI-alpha2-arm64-netinst.iso. - Both wifi and wired ethernet were found, though for some reason the wired interface did not always manage to get configured via DHCP. I tried a few times, and when wired ethernet did not work, the wifi interface did. It seemed hit-or-miss. The installer also detected that some non-free firmware was required by the brcm module, but I don't think this is the reason for the issue, which I suspect would have otherwise been always reproducible? - The raspi-firmware package did not get installed, and I think it should probably have? - To ensure that Guided partitioning would not automatically change the partition table to GPT, but leave it as msdos, I have manually created a root partition. I haven't tested whether this was actually necessary though. - Rebooting into the freshly installed system unfortunately did not work. This is because bootaa64.efi (and indeed the whole /boot/efi/EFI/boot directory) was missing. I could fix this by booting the installer again in Rescue Mode and choosing "Force GRUB installation to the EFI removable media path", which added /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT with: ema@raspi:~$ sudo ls -l /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT total 5160 -rwx------ 1 root root 856064 Mar 8 2023 BOOTAA64.EFI -rwx------ 1 root root 91520 Mar 8 2023 fbaa64.efi -rwx------ 1 root root 4322752 Mar 8 2023 grubaa64.efi - depthcharge-tools-installer was very keen in letting me know that I do not have a ChromeOS board. The message "depthcharge-tools-installer: Not installing to non-ChromeOS board." was repeated a total of 21 times. ema@raspi:~$ sudo grep -c "non-ChromeOS board" /var/log/installer/syslog 21 Mentioning that once, if at all, would probably be enough. :-) So all in all the only truly serious problem was the fact that grub had to be installed to the EFI removable media path. I briefly discussed this with Sledge on irc and he mentioned that it would be good to have a list of platforms requiring such workaround, so that we can apply it when needed. Please find the contents of /var/log/installer/ attached.
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