On Sat 11 May 2019 at 16:21:41 -0400, An Liu wrote: > > Try booting the mini.iso with GRUB's loopback. You might have a pleasant > > surprise! > > > Yes, boot with GRUB's loopback, I can start debian-installer, impressive!
I used the i-386 stretch mini.iso successfully. > But it still failed at detect media step. As we can't mount loop devices in > busy > box, if we could extract the contents in this ISO to some place we > could read ( > e.g USB with fat format), can we continue this installer ? That's a different issue. The kernel, initrd and the udebs in the archive have to match what is in the ISO. Something somewhere needs updating. -- Brian.