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
