Devuan bug report logs - #765
[devuan-installer] Daedalus Live iso fails on DVD

Package: refractainstaller-base; Maintainer for refractainstaller-base is fsmithred <fsmithred@gmail.com>; Source for refractainstaller-base is src:refractainstaller-base.

Reported by: Bud Heal <budheal508@gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 14:30:01 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Bud Heal <budheal508@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2023 04:33:52 -0400
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Subject: Re: bug#765: [devuan-installer] Daedalus Live iso fails on DVD
To: fsmithred <fsmithred@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>, 765@bugs.devuan.org
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The first (and the second, read on) were (from memory) July 1, 2023. The
Dell is set to legacy (BIOS) booting. That DVD would boot, told me it would
load, but would not transfer control out of the initial menu (load, load,
load, diagnostics).

I put the iso into a USB stick (the only fresh one was 128GB) and that ran
- but one time. out of several, I encountered the same symptoms using the
USB SSD (one time only) and when I tried rebooting, the USB stick was not
recognized, until I shut down for a cold boot.

I put the July 8 2023 daedalus live installer onto a DVD, moved over the
fastest computer in my stable (AMD 12-core, 64GB RAM) and it ran just fine.
At least, it automatically loaded and started Linux and on to the desktop.

I think there is a condition where if the arrow keys are depressed while
the kernel or userland are being loaded, the initial boot menu will not
transfer execution even if 'Enter' is pressed.

However, earlier in the correspondence there was an intuitive musing that
the USB connection might be flaky and that could very well be the problem.

I will keep testing the live ISO, from time to time, to see if I can narrow
down how to invoke this bug.

Laird "Bud" Heal

On Fri, Jul 7, 2023 at 7:56 AM fsmithred <fsmithred@gmail.com> wrote:

> Which iso did you use?
>
> Did you boot uefi or legacy bios?
>
> Thanks,
> fsmithred
>
>
>
> On 7/6/23 20:21, Bud Heal wrote:
> > I burned the DVD and tried to boot on an external Samsung (SE-208) on a
> > Dell Precision M4600, 8GB main memory, i7-2820 (2.3 GHz), stock Intel
> > graphics (64MB). Legacy setting.
> >
> > The internal DVD drive conked out as I went to do this testing. I have
> too
> > many other computers with running internal DVD drives if needed.
> >
> > The DVD, and the drive, boot just fine to the main menu. It loads the
> > kernel and userland without prompting, if slower than from a USB stick.
> If
> > one presses the up/down arrow, after those loads, the focus shifts, at
> > which point the loading restarts.
> >
> > The only difference with the process with the USB stick is it proceeds to
> > the standalone messages and then displays a desktop.
> >
> > I could test optical media (;)) but the time to set up for debugging,
> alas,
> > not this month.
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 1, 2023 at 9:32 AM . fsmithred <fsmithred@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Mark,
> >>
> >> We probably need a pseudopackage for desktop-live like there is for
> >> minimal-live. It sounds like the problem is that the dvd won't boot.
> >> The installer isn't running yet at that point.
> >>
> >> Bud,
> >>
> >> Which iso did you use? Are you booting uefi or legacy bios? What kind
> >> of hardware is it, especially the graphics - intel, amd or nvidia?
> >>
> >> FWIW I tried devuan_daedalus_5.0.0-rc1_amd64_desktop-live.iso copied
> >> to usb with dd and it boots to desktop on a lenovo T450s in bios mode.
> >> I can test uefi some time in the next 24 hours.
> >>
> >> I can't test optical media at this time.
> >>
> >> fsmithred
> >>
> >>
> >> On 7/1/23, Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk> wrote:
> >>> Control: reassign -1 refractainstaller-base
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 02:27:16PM +0000, Bud Heal wrote:
> >>>>     Package: devuan-installer
> >>>>     I burned a DVD with the live image,
> >>>
> >>> I assume you mean Refracta's Desktop Live rather than Minimal Live.
> >>>
> >>> Reassigning.
> >>>
> >>> fsmithred,
> >>>
> >>> I hope I have understood the OP correctly. Please reassign if not.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>>
> >>> Mark
> >>>
> >>
> >
>
>

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Devuan bug report logs - #765 [devuan-installer] Daedalus Live iso fails on DVD

Devuan bug report logs - #765
[devuan-installer] Daedalus Live iso fails on DVD