On 2020-01-29 23:07, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
Good afternoon
I take it that you have booted the .iso and run the installer - on
to a separate usb stick.
Where did you install grub? If by chance it installed on to sda,
then allowing the PC to just boot should run grub and offer the
choice of booting debian or win10.
What happens if boot from the .iso and plug the other usb in. It
should open thunar and list the contents.
Running gparted from the .iso and looking at the other usb stick may
show something of interest - like did it set to bootable. Are there
boot and efi partitions as well as a system partition - showing about
5G used?
I'm working on instinct, so feel free to ignore me.
On 2020-01-29 23:22, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
Here is info about one of my disks, GPT partition table with EFI
partition, boots fine into UEFI mode without Secure Boot. It's a
dual-boot setup (Debian 10 + Windows 10) with GRUB bootloader.
Information about partitions from "gdisk" utility: Disk /dev/sdb:
500118192 sectors, 238.5 GiB Model: KINGSTON Sector size
(logical/physical): 512/512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID):
20DF70EC-1097-4EE4-9BBE-569BE071281B Partition table holds up to 128
entries Main partition table begins at sector 2 and ends at sector 33
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 500118158 Partitions
will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries Total free space is 2669
sectors (1.3 MiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2048
923647 450.0 MiB 2700 Basic data partition 2 923648
1128447 100.0 MiB EF00 EFI system partition 3 1128448
1161215 16.0 MiB 0C01 Microsoft reserved ... 4 1161216
163842047 77.6 GiB 0700 Basic data partition 5 163842048
500117503 160.3 GiB 8300 Debian-system
On 2020-01-30 00:40, didier.gau...@gmail.com wrote:
In your case (USB removable device), perhaps (not sure) you will
succeed with the --removable or --force-extra-removable options of
grub-install. There is a similar option in the expert mode of
installation of Debian at the grub installation step.
I have already run Debian in UEFI (non Legacy mode), GPT and Secure
Boot with no problem (Secure Boot mode: briefly, I am using
Insecure Mode).
On 2020-01-30 01:04, Phil Wyett wrote:
Hi,
I am running buster with two disk setup in laptop (PC Specialist -
Lafite 3) - GPT, (U)EFI and Secure Boot enabled. First disk (NVME)
is> '/' and second (SSD) is '/home'.
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Disk model: WDS500G3X0C-00SJG0 Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size
(minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk
identifier: 245E1C83-E8A6-4F79-90E6-BB2020B3E161
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 1953791 1951744 953M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2 914272256 976771071 62498816 29.8G Linux swap
/dev/nvme0n1p3 1953792 914272255 912318464 435G Linux filesystem
Partition table entries are not in disk order.
Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Disk
model: Seagate BarraCud Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector
size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size
(minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk
identifier: 841BBA13-490B-4A02-BB6A-80C088CF51B0
Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sda1 2048
976771071 976769024 465.8G Linux filesystem
Regards
Phil
On 2020-01-30 16:38, Steve McIntyre wrote:
Unetbootin has caused many difficult support problems over the years,
wasting lots of time for me and other Debian developers. We've worked
very hard to make the installer boot and run on diverse computers,
then unetbootin has broken things for users. We explicitly
disrecommend it for that exact reason.
This is even more important with new features like UEFI and Secure
Boot.
Rufus is a different matter - it has a "DD mode" which*is* useful
for writing an image to a USB stick unmolested.
On 2020-01-30 16:47, Steve McIntyre wrote:
OK. How exactly have you partitioned the target USB drive? What
files are on the EFI System Partition there? Did you tell the
installer to also install grub to the removable media path? That
would be my first guess for what's missing.
On 2020-01-30 16:47, Steve McIntyre wrote:
You don't need to tell grub-install to use x86_64-efi-signed as a
target - it should work things out automatically and install shim
etc. as needed. There is*not* a modinfo.sh for the signed grub
packaging as the signed binaries we build for grub are monolithic
(i.e. no loadable modules allowed).
Thank you, everyone, for the replies. :-)
Given that the 'grub-install ...' idea did not fix the problem, and also
made changes to the "buster" stick, I decided it would be best to wipe
the target USB stick and start over.
Here is the d-i image I started with:
2020-01-30 21:22:29 dpchrist@tinkywinky
~/samba/dpchrist/iso/debian/10.2.0/amd64
$ ll debian-10.2.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso
-rw-r--r--+ 1 dpchrist dpchrist 670040064 2020-01-28 19:07:57
debian-10.2.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso
This page gives general guidance for verifying the image, but not
explicit instructions:
https://www.debian.org/CD/verify
The SHA256 checksum is correct:
2020-01-30 21:22:31 dpchrist@tinkywinky
~/samba/dpchrist/iso/debian/10.2.0/amd64
$ sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS 2>&1 | grep debian-10.2.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso
debian-10.2.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso: OK
I burned the image to a USB stick with a script that issued this command:
+ /bin/cat
/home/dpchrist/samba/dpchrist/iso/debian/10.2.0/amd64/debian-10.2.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso
| /bin/dd
of=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-SanDisk_Ultra_Fit_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-0:0
bs=1048576 count=639 iflag=fullblock status=progress
The script verified the image against the installer stick, and they matched:
+ /usr/bin/cmp <(/bin/dd
if=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-SanDisk_Ultra_Fit_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-0:0
bs=1048576 count=639 iflag=fullblock status=progress) <(/bin/cat
/home/dpchrist/samba/dpchrist/iso/debian/10.2.0/amd64/debian-10.2.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso)
I zeroed another USB stick and used a Dell PowerEdge T30 in UEFI Secure
Boot mode to install Debian onto the blank USB stick:
Insert debian-10.2.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1 USB flash drive into
front top USB 3.0 port.
Insert wiped SanDisk Ultra Fit USB 3.0 16 GB flash drive into
front bottom USB 3.0 port.
Boot.
Debian GNU/Linux 10.2.0
Debian GNU/Linux UEFI Installer menu Install
Language C
Continent or region North America
Country, territory or area United States
Keymap to use American English
Primary network interface eth0
Hostname buster
Domain name tracy.holgerdanske.com
Root password ********
Full name for the new user debian
Username for your account debian
Choose a password for the new user ********
Select your time zone Pacific
Partitioning method manual
Press Alt+F2 and open second virtual terminal. Installation media
is /dev/sdb and blank media is /dev/sda.
Select sda and create empty partition table.
Encrypted volume (sda3_crypt) - 1.0 GB Linux device-mapper (crypt)
#1 1.0 GB f swap swap
Encrypted volume (sda4_crypt) - 13.0 GB Linux device-mapper (crypt)
#1 13.0 GB f btrfs /
SCSI5 (0,0,0) (sda) - 15.6 GB SanDisk Ultra Fit
1.0 MB FREE SPACE
#1 499.1 MB F ESP buster_esp
#2 1.0 GB F btrfs buster_boot /boot
#3 1.0 GB K crypto buster_swap (sda3_crypt)
#4 12.0 GB K crypto buster_root (sda4_crypt)
51.4 MB FREESPACE
SCSI6 (0,0,0) (sdb) - 15.6 GB SanDisk Ultra Fit
Finish partitioning and write changes to disk
Use a network mirror No
Participate in the package usage survey No
Choose software to install
Debian desktop environment
Xfce
standard system utilities
Installation complete Continue
Power down at POST.
Remove installation media.
Note that I was never prompted to install GRUB.
Inserting the installed stick into my laptop:
2020-01-30 21:34:58 root@tinkywinky ~
# cat /etc/debian_version
9.11
2020-01-30 21:35:43 root@tinkywinky ~
# uname -a
Linux tinkywinky 4.9.0-11-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.189-3+deb9u2
(2019-11-11) x86_64 GNU/Linux
2020-01-30 21:38:50 root@tinkywinky ~
# dmesg | tail -n 16
[33217.364052] usb 1-3: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-pci
[33217.513185] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=0781, idProduct=5583
[33217.513195] usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
SerialNumber=3
[33217.513202] usb 1-3: Product: Ultra Fit
[33217.513208] usb 1-3: Manufacturer: SanDisk
[33217.513214] usb 1-3: SerialNumber: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[33217.513790] usb-storage 1-3:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[33217.519480] scsi host2: usb-storage 1-3:1.0
[33218.529025] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access SanDisk Ultra Fit 1.00
PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[33218.531282] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[33218.532376] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 30375936 512-byte logical blocks: (15.6
GB/14.5 GiB)
[33218.533362] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[33218.533371] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
[33218.534362] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache:
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[33218.568446] sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4
[33218.573105] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
2020-01-30 21:38:52 root@tinkywinky ~
# parted /dev/sdb u s p free
Model: SanDisk Ultra Fit (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 30375936s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
34s 2047s 2014s Free Space
1 2048s 976895s 974848s fat32 buster_esp boot, esp
2 976896s 2930687s 1953792s btrfs buster_boot
3 2930688s 4884479s 1953792s buster_swap
4 4884480s 30275583s 25391104s buster_root
30275584s 30375902s 100319s Free Space
2020-01-30 21:40:36 root@tinkywinky ~
# mount -o ro /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
2020-01-30 21:41:05 root@tinkywinky ~
# mount | grep sdb1
/dev/sdb1 on /mnt/sdb1 type vfat
(ro,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro)
2020-01-30 21:41:37 root@tinkywinky ~
# ls -AlR /mnt/sdb1
/mnt/sdb1:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 30 19:42 EFI
/mnt/sdb1/EFI:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 30 19:43 debian
/mnt/sdb1/EFI/debian:
total 5208
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 108 Jan 30 19:43 BOOTX64.CSV
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1206824 Jan 30 19:43 fbx64.efi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 121 Jan 30 19:43 grub.cfg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1529200 Jan 30 19:43 grubx64.efi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1261192 Jan 30 19:43 mmx64.efi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1322936 Jan 30 19:43 shimx64.efi
Inserting the installed stick into the Dell PowerEdge T30 front top USB
3.0 port, powering up, and pressing F2 to enter Setup:
General -> Boot Sequence -> debian -> View
Boot Option Name
debian
File System List
VenHw(99E275E7-75A0-4B37-A2E6-C5385E6C00CB)
File Name
\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI
I find it strange that there is no EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI in the ESP
partition/ filesystem listing, above.
-> Apply -> Exit
System warm boots, then:
No bootable devices found.
Press F1 key to retry boot.
Press F2 ky to reboot into setup.
Press F5 key to run onboard diagnostics.
Suggestions?
David
