Package: installation-reports
Severity: important
Hi,
I am always carrying around a bootable USB stick with various rescue discs
and an installation image of Debian.
Till about 1 year (6 months?) ago it was possible to boot via
grub/iso the image. The grub entry was
set isofile="/firmware-testing-amd64-netinst.iso"
menuentry '64 bit Install' {
loopback loop (hd0,1)$isofile
linux (loop)/install.amd/vmlinuz vga=788 -- quiet
initrd (loop)/install.amd/initrd.gz
}
That worked without a hinch for long time.
The other day I thought about updating this to the current jessie install
image
set isofile="/firmware-8.0.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso"
(with both the dual-arch iso as well as the amd64 only iso!)
but the installation process hangs at detecting the CDROM (not detected).
In the syslog I see that it is mounting sdb1 (the usb stick), but
then gives up:
May 16 12:43:54 cdrom-detect: Searching for Debian installation media...
May 16 12:43:54 cdrom-detect: Devices: ''
May 16 12:43:55 cdrom-detect: Devices: ''
May 16 12:43:56 cdrom-detect: Devices: ''
May 16 12:43:57 cdrom-detect: Devices: ''
May 16 12:43:58 cdrom-detect: Devices: ''
May 16 12:43:59 cdrom-detect: Devices: ''
May 16 12:44:00 cdrom-detect: Devices: ''
May 16 12:44:01 cdrom-detect: Devices: ''
May 16 12:44:02 cdrom-detect: Devices: ''
May 16 12:44:03 kernel: [ 15.511993] random: nonblocking pool is initialized
May 16 12:44:03 cdrom-detect: CD-ROM mount failed: device=/dev/sdb1
fstype=iso9660
May 16 12:44:03 kernel: [ 15.523182] FAT-fs (sdb1): utf8 is not a recommended
IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
May 16 12:44:03 cdrom-detect: CD-ROM mount succeeded: device=/dev/sdb1
fstype=vfat
May 16 12:44:03 cdrom-detect: The CD in /dev/sdb1 is not a Debian CD!
May 16 12:44:19 init: starting pid 186, tty '/dev/tty2': '-/bin/sh'
May 16 12:44:31 kernel: [ 43.143830] FAT-fs (sdb1): utf8 is not a recommended
IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
Are there any hidden things I have to pass to the kernel boot cmd line
to get this working as before?
It is especially disappointing that this is a regression, as I used the
images quite a long time.
Thanks
Norbert
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-rc3+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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