Re: Buster installer on USB searches for CDROM instead of using USB drive

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

TomK/Brian_S <forensic@milwpc.com> wrote:
> I disabled all boot devices in the BIOS, except the USB drive. It works
> now.

This is surprising and unplausible even within the usual range of firmware
madness.

I understand that the "mount CDROM step" is performed by a Linux kernel
on behalf of software in the initial RAM disk. The boot device settings of
the firmware should have no influence on the Linux kernel.

Since i suspect a race condition between kernel device assessment and
assessment requests by the initrd, your success might be pure luck.
Or your failure might have been pure bad luck.
Not many others complain about problems with Debian 10 ISOs on USB stick.

Well, it will hardly be fixed unless somebody can make it reproducible
and perform experiments to find ways to make it non-reproducible.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas