Bug#1056998: cdrom: Installation media changes after booting it

2023-12-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > >Does any of the bystanders know from what package this message text stems ? Steve McIntyre wrote: > That's cdrom-checker: So that would be indirectly put into the code at https://sources.debian.org/src/cdrom-checker/1.62/main.c/?hl=152#L152 by "Template:

Bug#1056998: cdrom: Installation media changes after booting it

2023-12-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Thomas! On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 10:15:53AM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > >As for a better message from Integrity Check: > >I find in the ISO in file /install.amd/initrd.gz the lines: > "The file ${FILE} failed the MD5 checksum verification. Your installation" > "media or this file may have

Bug#1056998: cdrom: Installation media changes after booting it

2023-12-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, trying to get our mails in sync again. We seem to have reached consensus in our understanding of the problem. i wrote: > > might possibly be "WPSettings.dat", which causes questions in the > > internet. Ram Reddy wrote: > I think that this could possibly be explained by flaws in my testing.

Bug#1056998: cdrom: Installation media changes after booting it

2023-12-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Ram Reddy wrote: > Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > FWIW check the BIOS L[123] cache settings [...] This was posted by Nicholas Geovanis , not by me. My suspicion is that the Lenovo Legion EFI BIOS intentionally creates directories and empty file "/efi/Lenovo/BIOS/SelfHealing.fd". I do not see

Bug#1056998: cdrom: Installation media changes after booting it

2023-12-05 Thread Ram Reddy
Hi, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > In Legion7iG5-*_modified.esp the suspect lost its ID card at the crime scene: > At byte 39072 (0x98a0) the changes go from 0-bytes to the text "LENOVO". > At byte 9711680 (0x943040) i see a change from 0-bytes to "BIOS". > [...] > Diffing the result of "find" on

Bug#1056998: cdrom: Installation media changes after booting it

2023-12-04 Thread Ram Reddy
Hello, Thomas Schmitt wrote:FWIW check the BIOS L[123] cache settings and consider changing them to > more conservative "slower" values if possible. And you have different RAM For changing the BIOS L[1/2/3] cache settings, these are laptop BIOSes which usually have very few features (other than

Bug#1056998: cdrom: Installation media changes after booting it

2023-12-04 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Dec 4, 2023, 3:30 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > . > This seems to indicate that the firmware has a stake in the problem ... > > > Both the Thinkpad E14 Gen 5s had the same specifications and type number, > > differing only in that the one with corruption of the installer has 24GB > of >

Bug#1056998: cdrom: Installation media changes after booting it

2023-12-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Ram Reddy wrote: > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zd6iufVRsfIu-qzC-tJx4FEvCOESOz4_/view?usp=sharing I downloaded the tarball and compared the original FAT filesystem with the various modified filesystem images. -- In

Bug#1056998: cdrom: Installation media changes after booting it

2023-12-04 Thread Ram Reddy
Hi, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Maybe we can learn more by comparing the files /boot/grub/efi.img of the > original ISO and of an altered USB stick. > iso=/dev/sdX > and then > dd bs=512 if="$iso" of="$iso".esp skip=4476 count=18976 I tried doing that for the times the drive was modified, and they

Bug#1056998: cdrom: Installation media changes after booting it

2023-12-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Ram Reddy wrote: > I tested the installer on one of my laptops, and found that its contents > didn't change. Good to know that the software in the ISO still works from read-only DVDs. > On the Lenovo Legion 7i Gen 5*, Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 2*, Lenovo > Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 5

Bug#1056998: cdrom: Installation media changes after booting it

2023-12-03 Thread Ram Reddy
Hello, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > It would be interesting to check whether any errors get reported if the > ISO is presented on a read-only CD or DVD instead of a writable USB stick. Hello, thank you for the help. The DVD+Rs arrived, along with the DVD Drive. I tested the installer on one of my

Bug#1056998: cdrom: Installation media changes after booting it

2023-11-28 Thread Ram Reddy
Hello, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > I'd say that corruption of ISO image or USB is quite unlikely. >[ . . . ] >It would be interesting to check whether any errors get reported if the > ISO is presented on a read-only CD or DVD instead of a writable USB stick. Thank you for the suggestion for trying

Bug#1056998: cdrom: Installation media changes after booting it

2023-11-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Ram Reddy wrote: > [...] usb drive [...] debian-12.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso [...] > [...] Integrity Test section [...] > ./boot/grub/efi.img failed the MD5 checksum verification. Your installation > media or this file may have been corrupted. > [...] > It was always byte 2303211, line 21165

Bug#1056998: cdrom: Installation media changes after booting it

2023-11-27 Thread Ram Reddy
Package: cdrom Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: raamredd...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, I have downloaded a debian 12.2.0 netinst and verified its integrity with sha512sum -c --ignore-missing SHA512SUMS and wrote it to a usb drive with dd bs=2048 if=debian-12.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso of=/dev/sda