I haven’t submitted anything about this previously, as I thought for whatever reason I was the only user impacted by this issue, but there seem to be other users posting on Reddit with similar issues which could be linked.
My problem is with the Debian 11.4 Live Image installer.
The installation works like a charm on KVM-based virtual machines (I have proxmox in my home lab), the issue is that on physical hardware, it the Calamares installer doesn’t write a boot record, leaving the system in an unboottable state after
installation.
This has occurred with two of my Dell Laptops, an XPS 9575 as well as a Latitude E5470. I’ve used Legacy and UEFI modes, no improvement. Both my laptops have no problem installing and running: Fedora 36, RHEL 8.4 (and clones), Ubuntu 22.04, Manjaro,
Pop OS 22.04. Literally every other distro I’ve tested installs fine, the issue is solely with Debian Live images
For the XPS, I only tried with the non-free firmware images, but for the Latitude, I tried with both non free and free versions.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
1) Burn ISO live image to USB
2) Start Dell laptop off of USB
3) Launch the Calamares installer and run it to completion.
4) Remove USB
5) Reboot.
You will be at a blank screen, no OS is found.
Do not test this in a virtual environment, the installer works fine there last I checked.
Here are some reddit posts that make me think that this is a widespread issue than just me:
https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/wl2b1s/follow_up_from_my_previous_post_i_have_no_idea/
https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/wk9157/i_installed_debian_11_on_my_intel_core_i5_dell/
Images I’ve used are (I’ve also tried Torrent downloads, no difference):
Free
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/
Non Free Firmware
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/current/amd64/iso-dvd/
If QA isn’t the correct list to submit this to, I would appreciate it someone could point me to a more appropriate list?
Thank you!
Lucas
<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I haven’t submitted anything about this previously, as I thought for whatever reason I was the only user impacted by this issue, but
there seem to be other users posting on Reddit with similar issues which could be linked.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My problem is with the Debian 11.4 Live Image installer.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The
installation works like a charm on KVM-based virtual machines (I have proxmox in my home lab), the issue is that on physical hardware, it the Calamares installer doesn’t write a boot record, leaving the system in an unboottable state after installation.
</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This has occurred with two of my Dell Laptops, an XPS 9575 as well as a Latitude E5470. I’ve used Legacy and UEFI modes, no improvement. Both my laptops have no problem installing and running: Fedora
36, RHEL 8.4 (and clones), Ubuntu 22.04, Manjaro, Pop OS 22.04. Literally every other distro I’ve tested installs fine, the issue is solely with Debian Live images</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For the XPS, I only tried with the
non-free firmware images, but for the Latitude, I tried with both non free and free versions.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">STEPS TO REPRODUCE:</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1) Burn ISO live
image to USB</div><div class="">2) Start Dell laptop off of USB </div><div class="">3) Launch the Calamares installer and run it to completion.</div><div class="">4) Remove USB</div><div class="">5) Reboot.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div
class="">You will be at a blank screen, no OS is found.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Do not test this in a virtual environment, the installer works fine there last I checked.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here
are some reddit posts that make me think that this is a widespread issue than just me:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="
https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/wl2b1s/follow_up_from_my_previous_post_i_have_no_idea/" class="">
https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/wl2b1s/follow_up_from_my_previous_post_i_have_no_idea/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="
https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/wk9157/i_installed_debian_11_on_my_intel_core_i5_
dell/" class="">
https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/wk9157/i_installed_debian_11_on_my_intel_core_i5_dell/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Images I�
��ve used are (I’ve also tried Torrent downloads, no difference):</b></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><b class="">Free</b></div><div class=""><a href="
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/"
class="">
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Non Free Firmware</b></div><div class=""><a href="
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-
firmware/current/amd64/iso-dvd/" class="">
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/current/amd64/iso-dvd/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If QA isn’t the
correct list to submit this to, I would appreciate it someone could point me to a more appropriate list?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you!</div><div class="">Lucas</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>
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