Re: [SOLVED] Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-18 Thread Max Nikulin
On 18/12/2024 04:56, Roger Price wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2024, Max Nikulin wrote: Have you tried to plug the stick into another USB port (e.g. USB2 instead of USB3 or vice versa)? Try full power cycle, not just reboot. All the 10 USB ports on my T5820 are specified as USB 3.1 Gen 1.  I always d

Re: [SOLVED] Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-17 Thread Roger Price
On Tue, 17 Dec 2024, Thomas Schmitt wrote: dd if=debian-12.8.0-and64-DVD-1.iso of=/dev/sdj1 bs=4M && sync The "1" in "/dev/sdj1" is surplus. I rebuilt the USB stick using just /dev/sdj . On Tue, 17 Dec 2024, Max Nikulin wrote: Am I right that you have internal SSD (SATA? NVME?) and a USB

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-17 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 03:32:03PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Roger Price wrote: To check for bad USB stick, I downloaded debian-12.8.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso and built a new 12.8 USB installation stick using command dd if=debian-12.8.0-and64-DVD-1.iso of=/dev/sdj1 bs=4M && sync The "1" in "/dev/s

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Roger Price wrote: > To check for bad USB stick, I downloaded debian-12.8.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso and > built a new 12.8 USB installation stick using command > dd if=debian-12.8.0-and64-DVD-1.iso of=/dev/sdj1 bs=4M && sync The "1" in "/dev/sdj1" is surplus. Normally, the ISO image has to be copied

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-17 Thread Max Nikulin
On 16/12/2024 15:45, Roger Price wrote: So I re-inserted the USB installation stick to redo the installation. This took me to the GRUB command line. Am I right that you have internal SSD (SATA? NVME?) and a USB stick? Have you tried to plug the stick into another USB port (e.g. USB2 instead

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-17 Thread Roger Price
On Tue, 17 Dec 2024, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Roger Price wrote: I got the message error: file '/install.amd/vmlinux' not found So perhaps: grub> set root=(hd0) grub> linux/install.amd/vmlinuz vga=788 --- quiet grub> initrd /install.amd/gtk/initrd.gz grub> boot The "linux" command st

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i proposed for booting from the now reluctant USB stick: > > grub> linux/install.amd/vmlinuz vga=788 --- quiet > > grub> initrd /install.amd/gtk/initrd.gz > > grub> boot Roger Price wrote: > I got the message error: file '/install.amd/vmlinux' not found Hm. The internet shows such star

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-17 Thread Roger Price
On Mon, 16 Dec 2024, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Does the USB stick yield the proper checksum when inspected on a running GNU/Linux system ? Will check. grub> cat (hd0,msdos2)/efi/debian/grub.cfg set prefix-($root)/boot/grub I see "=" instead of "-" in this file when the partition is mounted:

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:45:59 +0100 (CET) Roger Price wrote: > But I did create a > small FAT32 partition to be mounted on /boot/efi if one day I needed > it. Which option in the installer's partitioner did you use, one of the FAT options, or the EFI one? The latter will create a partition with

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:50:02 + Joe wrote: > So I gave up, and just installed bookworm clean. No bootable OS found. > I'll cut it short: it wouldn't boot because a /boot/efi/EFI directory > did not contain a Microsoft directory containing bootmgfw.efi. > Previously, it had been happy to boot f

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-16 Thread David Christensen
On 12/16/24 10:50, Joe wrote: I would add that many modern computers are almost hardwired for Windows. ... So I gave up, and just installed bookworm clean. No bootable OS found. I'll cut it short: it wouldn't boot because a /boot/efi/EFI directory did not contain a Microsoft directory containing

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-16 Thread Joe
On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:39:22 -0800 David Christensen wrote: > On 12/16/24 00:45, Roger Price wrote: > > I have a Dell T5820 workstation.  I had already installed Debian 12 > > in a spare partition on a Transcend SSD dating from 2017 using a > > USB memory stick.  I left in place the existing Wind

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-16 Thread David Christensen
On 12/16/24 00:45, Roger Price wrote: I have a Dell T5820 workstation.  I had already installed Debian 12 in a spare partition on a Transcend SSD dating from 2017 using a USB memory stick.  I left in place the existing Windows SSD that came with the workstation.  All went well - a very smooth i

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Roger Price wrote: > Device hd0: Filesystem type ISO9660 - Label 'Debian 12.7.0 amd64 n' > [...] > So it looks as if hd0 is the installation USB stick. Indeed (unless you have a hard disk with an ISO 9660 filesystem around the disk's partitions). > I don't understand why the USB stick no

Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-16 Thread Roger Price
I have a Dell T5820 workstation. I had already installed Debian 12 in a spare partition on a Transcend SSD dating from 2017 using a USB memory stick. I left in place the existing Windows SSD that came with the workstation. All went well - a very smooth install. A few weeks later the Transcen