Le 27/05/2018 à 00:19, Rick Thomas a écrit :
Does anyone have experience installing Debian on a Minnowboard Turbot?
Not me.
I have a dual-core, single ethernet, Turbot. I’m able to install Debian (Buster) from a physical DVD, but when I dd the installer .iso to a USB stick, and try to install from the stick, the Turbot’s firmware doesn’t see the stick as a bootable medium. If I install (using the physical DVD in a USB connected DVD drive) to a USB stick, that USB stick (the one I installed to) will boot fine. So it’s not that it just can’t boot from a USB stick. The documentation isn’t entirely clear, but I *think* the Turbot’s boot firmware is UEFI-only. Would that make a difference?
Probably not, if the same image boots from a DVD.
It seems odd that the exact same bits should be seen as bootable when presented on a DVD, but not when presented on a USB stick…
No, it is perfectly normal. The expected boot structures on a DVD and a USB stick (or floppy, hard disk...) are completely different. The Debian installer ISO images are called "hybrid" because they combine a DVD layout and a regular hard disk (or USB stick). But this comes at a price : the partition table layout could be considered invalid on a strict point of view.