Re: Debian 12 installation - installation USB stick boots to grub prompt
On Mon 04 Nov 2024 at 12:36:18 (+0000), Chris Green wrote:
> This continues from my "Failed Debian 12 install..." thread earlier
> today.
>
> I can't get the USB Installation stick to boot into the Debian
> installation process when I load it in UEFI mode. If I boot the USB
> stick in UEFI mode it just takes me to the grub prompt.
It may help to know whether that's a grub> prompt
or a grub rescue> prompt. The latter takes a bit more
work to recover from.
Whichever, does typing ls produce a listing of some sort?
Basically, you have to look around to find the bits of Grub
that you need to load, find the kernel and initrd, and then
boot them.
> I suspect that this is why, when I boot from the USB stick in BIOS
> compatibility mode the resulting installation doesn't work.
>
> Any ideas what I need to do to get the USB stick to boot properly in
> USB mode?
>
> The hardware is a Fujitsu Esprimo Q957 system with a 2Gb NVME disk
> drive. Installation on a quite similar Fujitsu Esprimo Q556 system
> goes without a hitch (though that only has SATA drives).
Cheers,
David.
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