Re: Debian 12 installation - installation USB stick boots to grub prompt

[Chris Green <cl@isbd.net>]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 09:09:31AM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> 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.
> 
It's just a "grub>".


> Whichever, does typing   ls   produce a listing of some sort?
> 
Oh yes:-

(proc) (memdisk) (lvm/q957--vg-swap_1) (lvm/q957--vg-root)  (hd0)
(hd0,apple2) (hd0,apple1) (hd0,msdos2) (hd1) (hd1,gpt1) (hd2)
(hd2,msdos5) (hd2,msdos1)


> 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.
> 
> 

-- 
Chris Green