Bug#969224: cdimage.debian.org: Error installing Debian 10.5 from flash stick with Extlinux

["J.A. Bezemer" <j.a.bezemer@opensourcepartners.nl>]

retitle 969224 Archive main/installer-*/current/ has outdated kernels?
severity 969224 normal
thanks

Hi,

So the real problem is that the archive seems outdated w.r.t. DVD images. 
The DVD images themselves are consistent (since you report they work 
fine).

I'm doing customized usb sticks regularly, e.g. putting i386 and amd64 
installer DVD iso's plus several Live systems onto one big usb stick, with 
bootloader options to choose between them.

So I've bumped into this exact issue before, and I learned to always get 
everything from the same source. Specifically, get kernel and initrd 
directly from the .iso file that you use, by mounting it (-o loop), or 
extract them using isoinfo command (hint: -R option), or probably 7z will 
work too. While you're there, also study what the "official" bootloader is 
passing to the kernel commandline, and do something similar in your own 
bootloader config.

Best regards,
Anne Bezemer


On Sun, 30 Aug 2020,   wrote:

[..]
> I think the problem is that the kernel versions for DVD and
> installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/ or
> installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/gtk/
> ÿÿ initrd.gz
> for Debian 10.4 and Debian 10.5
> don't match.
>
> for Debian 10.5
> 4.19.0-10 - the kernel versions for DVD
> 4.19.0-5  - the kernel versions for
> http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian10.5/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/
> or (for GTK)
> http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian10.5/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/gtk/
>
> ÿÿÿÿÿÿ Debian 10.4
> 4.19.0-9 - the kernel versions for ÿÿ DVD
> 4.19.0-5 - the kernel versions for
> http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian10.4/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/
> or (for GTK)
> http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian10.4/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/gtk/
>
> ÿÿÿÿÿÿ Debian 10.3
> 4.19.0-8 - the kernel versions for ÿÿ DVD
> 4.19.0-8 - the kernel versions for
> http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian10.3/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/
> or (for GTK)
> http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian10.3/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/gtk/
>
> For Debian 10.3 everything was established without problems.