+CC: Jonathan Carter, maintainer of Calamares Hello Lucas, On 14/08/2022 15:25, Lucas Krupinski wrote:
I’ve installed and reinstalled several times this morning, not using the Calamares installer, but rather using the Debian installers. All “successful” installs (meaning, boots to Debian after install) were done with the regular (text) installer.
Thank you for taking the time to perform so many installations.Given that you are able to install and boot when you are using the regular installer (even though there are some issues), I would think that the original issue you reported is caused by some differences between the Calamares installer and the Debian installer (in live-mode). So I've added the Calamares maintainer in CC.
From a previous mail:The hardware that you use are: Dell Laptops, an XPS 9575 as well as a Latitude E5470
*ISO Downloaded:* https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/11.4.0-live+nonfree/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-11.4.0-amd64-gnome+nonfree.iso <https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/11.4.0-live+nonfree/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-11.4.0-amd64-gnome+nonfree.iso> *Boot Mode:* UEFI (secure boot enabled) *Installer:* Graphical Debian Installer _ *_Attempt 1_**Result: *Mouse and trackpad don’t work on the first screen (Select a language). Exited installation.*Installer: *Debian Installer (text)*Result: *Keyboard doesn’t work on first screen (Select a language) (Exited installation)
This looks like a missing hardware driver issue, but I didn't expect a keyboard not to work.
_*Attempt 2*_ *Installer: *Debian Installer with external keyboard attached *Result:* Detect Network Hardware reports following missing: * ath10k/pre-cal-pci-0000:02:00.0.bin * ath10k/cal-pci-0000:02:00.0.bin Note that I’m using the ISO that includes non-free firmware Configure the Network:Connecting with wifi (Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174) reports that DHCP server can’t be contacted (chose do not configure at this time)Partition disks: Manually (1GB EFI, 100 GB /, 16GB swap, remainder /home)Configure the package manager: Doesn’t deterct netwok, so not using network mirrorInstallation complete *No entries in UEFI boot menu*
So: installation finished (in offline mode), but it is not bootable.The package 'firmware-atheros' should contain the firmware you need, and it is already present on the live CD.
@d-i installer maintainers: would this be found and used in the Debian installer?
*_Attempt 3_*Repeat above, but when I got to partitioning, I chose Guided Partitioning - use entire diskThis worked, restarted and got to the GRUB boot menu, and goes on to load OS However (read on):I can then connect to my Wifi, so I can add official sources to my sources.listAdd Debian sources to sources.list and then sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y Then things become unpredictable.First, time I rebooted straight into the Dell SupportAssist diagnostics, and found that I lost Debian entry from my UEFI boot menuRe-installed, and tried again, this time after restarting after the install, my keyboard and trackpad no longer work.
Steve McIntyre pointed to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=905319. Could you send the output of "sudo efibootmgr -v" when you have booted into the live environment?
Do you mean the external keyboard or the laptop keyboard (which was also not working with note 1)
*Other info:* As said before, no problems installing RHEL (and clones), Ubuntu, Pop, Fedora, or Manjaro. It is just Debian (and incidentally Linux Mint Debian Edition) that’s not cooperative.I’ve given up for this morning, and just installed Rocky Linux 9 on the computer with zero issues.If you have other ideas that you want me to try, I’m happy to do so some morning this week
Thanks again for taking so much time.Could you attach the output of the 'sudo efibootmgr -v ' command and also of 'lsusb'?
With kind regards, Roland Clobus
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