On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 11:17:51AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Marc Haber <mh+debian-packa...@zugschlus.de> (2021-06-08): > > I followed the instructions given on > > https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=282839 > > to install Debian on a Raspberry Pi using the UEFI firmware > > available for the raspi. > > > > This involves unpacking the official Debian 11 image into an ESP > > partition on an USB medium and using the Rasberry Pi UEFI firmware > > to boot the installer via UEFI => grub => Linux. Once the > > installe has started, this feels 100 % like a standard Debian > > installation. > > Fun!
Yes! > > I experienced the following issues: > > > > "Detecting Hardware" complains about missing firmware. I guess > > that's Wifi related, since the Wifi Interface doesn't work in the > > installed system and the 1000Base-TX interface works fine without. > > AFAICR (I'll get back to that soon enough) you should get a message > indicating which files were expected, so that you don't have to guess. The Raspi 4 has both Wifi and Ethernet interfaces named brcmsomething, so it's still kind of guessing, but I have verified in the mean time that it's actually really the Wifi firmware. > > Requesting German keyboard layout does not work in the beginning of > > installation, domain name and user name configuration still happens > > with the default US keyboard layout. Later, when configuring the > > network mirror, the keyboard layout has been changed to the requested > > german layout. I guess this happens during base system installation. > > Was that with the text or graphical installer? Text installer ("expert"). I have used the graphical installer just a handful of times in two decades. Since my default domain types differently with US and DE keyboard, I guess this might be an actual regression, I would have noticed this in earlier versions of the installer. > > For very strange reasons, the installed system ends up without > > /sbin/start-stop-daemon despite the dpkg package being in state "ii". > > This is reproducible. In the installer, I see a temporary diversion of > > /sbin/start-stop-daemon, but in the installed system, dpkg-divert > > --list doesn't show that. > > > > /var/lib/dpkg/diversions-old has those three lines: > > /sbin/start-stop-daemon > > /sbin/start-stop-daemon.REAL > > : > > > > There is no /sbin/start-stop-daemon.REAL though. > > A quick grep across our source packages show 3 possibilities: > - debootstrap > - debian-installer-utils > - apt-setup (code apparently copied from d-i-utils until some clean-up > happens, which never did) > > > And, the installed system does neither have /var/log/installer nor > > /var/log/debian-installer. This is also reproducible :-( Where would > > I find the files that get copied to /target/var/log/installer in the > > still running installer? > > Simply /var/log/syslog for the main log. Other files are mentioned > there: > > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/installation-report/-/blob/master/debian/installation-report.postinst Is there anything you need from me to go on? Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421