On 30/03/2025 at 05:02, Holger Wansing wrote:
My expectation would have been, that there is no difference between
the netinst and the live ISO, using d-i ...
There are some differences.
The live image d-i does not have the items "Install the base system"
(bootstrap-base udeb) nor "Select and install packages" (pkgsel udeb)
but the item "Install the system" (live-installer udeb) instead.
Correct me if I am wrong, but it looks like live-installer copies most
of the system from the squashfs live image instead of unpacking regular
.deb packages.
That being said, I do not know whether this is relevant or not.
To sum up Nolan's issue:
- trixie install with netinst d-i -> normal boot hangs during init,
emergency boot gives a working shell
- trixie install with live d-i -> normal boot works
- bookworm -> boot works
- bookworm with backports kernel -> boot hangs
This seems to point at trixie/backports kernel, maybe a module which is
not used by the installer nor the initramfs. Nolan wrote that many
drivers are missing in bookworm's kernel, maybe the culprit is one of
the new drivers in trixie's kernel. But why then wouldn't it hang in the
system installed with the live image which uses the same kernel AFAIK ?
Note to Nolan:
Your initial mail was too big (too many big attachments) for the
debian-boot mailing list which receives installation reports, so it
could have remained unnoticed for a long time if you had not sent a
follow-up. I suggest to keep the initial bug report size under a few
hundreds kilobytes, and if you need to send bigger data, attach them to
a separate mail and advertise it in a smaller mail.
