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



This is not a well supported method. Just use dd to write a netinst or a DVD image straight to the stick and then boot from it directly.

dd if=debian-10.5.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M oflag=sync status=progress

That will put a bootable partition on the stick and then the install will proceed.

You may need to use parted / fdisk afterwards to make the USB usable for any other purpose. This method is destructive of any data already on the stick.



On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 2:18 PM Сергей Фёдоров <serfyod0vr@yandex.ru> wrote:
Package: cdimage.debian.org
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system



-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.7.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Created a USB flach stick using the" gparted " MBR-partition table.
GPT-partition table failed to get a working version of the Debian installation.
Created an Ext4-partition and its label. Set the partition "boot" attribute.

Created a bootable flash drive:

# dd conv=notrunc bs=440 count=1 if=/usr/lib/EXTLINUX/mbr. bin of=/dev/xxx
where xxx is the name of the u-VA, for example, sdf.
# extlinux --install "folder path" (for example " /media/u1/UP1/"), where" UP1 " is partition name

For Debian 10.4 copied from a folder:

http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian10.4/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/
or from (for GTK)
http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian10.4/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/gtk/

vmlinuz
initrd.gz

and copied "debian-10.4.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso"

or

For Debian 10.5 copied from the folder:

http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian10.5/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/
or from (for GTK)
http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian10.5/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/gtk/

vmlinuz
initrd.gz

and copied "debian-10.5.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso»

In both cases, when installing Debian from a flash drive, I received the message:

Load installer components from an ISO installer.

No modules were found. This pfobably is due to a mismatch between the kernel
by this version of the installer and the kernel version available in the
archieve.

and the installation had to be stopped.

For Debian 10.3 copied from the folder:

http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian10.3/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/
or from (for GTK)
http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian10.3/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/gtk/

vmlinuz
initrd.gz

and copied "debian-10.3.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso"

and everything was established without problems.

Copy Debian 10.3, 10.4, and 10.5 to a USB stick in the device root, download
with it, the installation of Debian passes without problems.

For example:

dd if="./debian-10.5.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso" of=/dev/xxx bs=1M status=progress
where xxx is the name of the u-VA, for example, sdf.

Installing Debian 10.3, 10.4, and 10.5 from a DVD does not cause these problems.


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