On Mon 04 Nov 2024 at 09:41:36 (-0600), David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 04 Nov 2024 at 15:27:44 (+0000), Chris Green wrote:
> > 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)
>
> So hd0 is the USB stick. I'm not familiar with the view you have
> there, so try things like:
>
> ls (hd0,apple1)/
> ls (hd0,apple2)/
> ls (hd0,msdos2)/
>
> I'm guessing appleX gives you a UEFI view, and msdos2 an MBR view.
>
> If you see directories, try listing them. (Command recall should work
> to save typing.)
>
> (In the other thread, c didn't work because you were already
> at the command prompt that c gives you.)
Looking at the ISO for Debian 12.7, it looks as if you might be able
to boot into the installer with something like:
grub> set root=(hd0,apple2)
grub> linux install.amd/vmlinuz
grub> initrd install.amd/initrd.gz
If you want expert install (my preference), you might write:
linux install.amd/vmlinuz priority=low
instead. If you have to have a graphical installer, you might
get one with install.amd/gtk/ in place of install.amd/ .
The reason I used apple2 is because viewing
gdisk debian-12.7.0-amd64-netinst.iso
as a GPT partition table gives a listing with only partition 2.
But you lose nothing by trying any and all possibilities.
Cheers,
David.
