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
small to take a DVD ISO. Is this the same USB stick as the one with Debian 12.7.0 netinst ? If so, did you run a partition editor to create a new partition 1 ? > I tried booting this and got to a GRUB command line. This time ls -l > reports that (hd0) has "no known filesystem detected&q

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
dd if=debian-12.8.0-and64-DVD-1.iso of=/dev/sdj1 bs=4M && sync I tried booting this and got to a GRUB command line. This time ls -l reports that (hd0) has "no known filesystem detected", although (hd0,msdos1) reports "File system type ISO9660. Label Debian 12.8.0 amd64 1&q

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
; not found Hm. The internet shows such starts with first command "set root". https://superuser.com/questions/1237684/how-to-boot-from-grub-shell https://askubuntu.com/questions/883992/stuck-at-grub-command-line So perhaps: grub> set root=(hd0) grub> linux/install.amd/vml

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
und." So I re-inserted the USB installation stick to redo the installation. This took me to the GRUB command line. I typed a few commands: (I have removed all details of hd1, hd2... reported as No known filesystem detected, or Filesystem cannot be accessed) grub> ls -l Device hd0:

Aw: Re: GRUB command-line with timeout

2021-07-17 Thread Steve Keller
David Wright writes: > So on the odd occasion, you turn on the machine and, at a mininum, are > about to type in some commands to boot the machine manually. And then > you might even log in. Having to type /one/ keystroke at the start is > just too much. > > Is that what you're really saying? No

Re: GRUB command-line with timeout

2021-07-13 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, July 13, 2021 06:24:27 PM David Wright wrote: > On Tue 13 Jul 2021 at 15:43:55 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I'm not the OP, and I don't boot very often at all -- my machines run > > 24/7 for months on end, so I don't know / remember what has to be done > > in GRUB to get to t

Re: GRUB command-line with timeout

2021-07-13 Thread David Wright
On Tue 13 Jul 2021 at 15:43:55 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, July 13, 2021 11:34:48 AM David Wright wrote: > > So on the odd occasion, you turn on the machine and, at a mininum, are > > about to type in some commands to boot the machine manually. And then > > you might even log i

Re: GRUB command-line with timeout

2021-07-13 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, July 13, 2021 11:34:48 AM David Wright wrote: > So on the odd occasion, you turn on the machine and, at a mininum, are > about to type in some commands to boot the machine manually. And then > you might even log in. Having to type /one/ keystroke at the start is > just too much. > > Is

Re: GRUB command-line with timeout

2021-07-13 Thread David Wright
On Tue 13 Jul 2021 at 10:54:07 (+0200), Steve Keller wrote: > Brian writes: > > > > I'd prefer to be dropped into the GRUB command line instead of that > > > menu. But still I'd like to have the timeout after which a default > > > entry is

Re: GRUB command-line with timeout

2021-07-13 Thread Steve Keller
Brian writes: > > I'd prefer to be dropped into the GRUB command line instead of that > > menu. But still I'd like to have the timeout after which a default > > entry is boot if no command is entered at the prompt. > > You want GRUB's normal operation bu

Re: GRUB command-line with timeout

2021-07-01 Thread David
el command lines appears to choose from. If no > > > selection is made within a few seconds (default is 5s IIRC), the > > > default entry is booted. > > > I'd prefer to be dropped into the GRUB command line instead of that > > > menu. But still I'd like to

Re: GRUB command-line with timeout

2021-07-01 Thread David Wright
ion is made within a few seconds (default is 5s IIRC), the > > default entry is booted. > > Sounds about right. > > > I'd prefer to be dropped into the GRUB command line instead of that > > menu. But still I'd like to have the timeout after which a default > >

Re: GRUB command-line with timeout

2021-07-01 Thread Brian
ted. Sounds about right. > I'd prefer to be dropped into the GRUB command line instead of that > menu. But still I'd like to have the timeout after which a default > entry is boot if no command is entered at the prompt. You want GRUB's normal operation but, at the same t

Re: GRUB command-line with timeout

2021-07-01 Thread David Wright
ry is booted. > > I'd prefer to be dropped into the GRUB command line instead of that > menu. But still I'd like to have the timeout after which a default > entry is boot if no command is entered at the prompt. > > Can that be configured in GRUB? ‘GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE’

GRUB command-line with timeout

2021-07-01 Thread Steve Keller
When booting with GRUB, normally the menu showing several kernel versions and/or kernel command lines appears to choose from. If no selection is made within a few seconds (default is 5s IIRC), the default entry is booted. I'd prefer to be dropped into the GRUB command line instead of that

Re: GRUB command line

2019-08-13 Thread Charlie
Received from Pascal on Tue, 13 Aug 2019 23:41:59 +0200 Re: GRUB command line > Le 11/08/2019 à 22:54, Russell L. Harris a écrit : > > On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 09:09:26PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >> Le 11/08/2019 à 19:38, Finariu Florin a

Re: GRUB command line

2019-08-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 11/08/2019 à 22:54, Russell L. Harris a écrit : On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 09:09:26PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 11/08/2019 à 19:38, Finariu Florin a écrit : Hi everyone,Can you tell me where I find the step by step installation of Debian 10 with GRUB Command line?I'm in Debian

Re: GRUB command line

2019-08-11 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 09:09:26PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 11/08/2019 ?? 19:38, Finariu Florin a ??crit??: Hi everyone,Can you tell me where I find the step by step installation of Debian 10 with GRUB Command line?I'm in Debian UEFI installer mode. What do you mean by "in

Re: GRUB command line

2019-08-11 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 11/08/2019 à 19:38, Finariu Florin a écrit : Hi everyone,Can you tell me where I find the step by step installation of Debian 10 with GRUB Command line?I'm in Debian UEFI installer mode. What do you mean by "installation of Debian 10 with GRUB Command line" ?