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Debian live installer problems

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Hi

I've been trying to get a debian installer working on my usb stick. The
stick has an EFI partition
and grub installed. The debian live cd iso is stored under a folder called
`/boot/iso`. The grub.cfg contains entries of the form

    set imgdevpath='/dev/disk/by-uuid/<uuid>'
    menuentry '[loopback]debian stretch 9.1 livecd' {
         set
isofile='/boot/iso/debian-live-9.1.0-amd64-cinnamon+nonfree.iso'
         loopback loop $isofile
         linux (loop)/live/vmlinuz-4.9.0-3-amd64 boot=live components
findiso=${imgdevpath}/${isofile}
         initrd (loop)/live/initrd.img-4.9.0-3-amd64
    }

       menuentry "Debian livecd 9.1 graphical installer" {
        set isofile='/boot/iso/debian-live-9.1.0-amd64-cinnamon+nonfree.iso'
        loopback loop $isofile
        linux  (loop)/d-i/gtk/vmlinuz append video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr vga=788
"findiso=${imgdevpath}/${isofile}"
        initrd (loop)/d-i/gtk/initrd.gz
       }

Once I get to the boot screen and try to run the graphical installer, it
fails after loading the kernel. But the live cd does boot. However, the
live cd that I booted above (cinnamon+nonfree) does not have a way to run
the debian installer after it has booted.

I tried apt install debian-installer, but it gives the following error.

    $ sudo apt install debian-installer-launcher
    $ sudo debian-installer-launcher
    no suitable d-i initrd image found, aborting
    umount /lib/live/installer: mountpoint not found

I dont know where this bug should be filed, since I cannot file it against
a package. So I thought i'd ask here. I'm happy to file a bug and leave it
at that. In any case I debootstrap when I usually install things.

Arjun

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Debian live installer problems Arjun Krishnan <arjunkc@gmail.com> - 2017-08-20 05:50 +0200
  Re: Debian live installer problems Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-08-20 06:30 +0200
  Re: Debian live installer problems Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-20 17:20 +0200
    Re: Debian live installer problems Arjun Krishnan <arjunkc@gmail.com> - 2017-08-20 18:00 +0200
      Re: Debian live installer problems Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-20 18:40 +0200
        Re: Debian live installer problems Arjun Krishnan <arjunkc@gmail.com> - 2017-08-20 19:40 +0200
          Re: Debian live installer problems Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-20 20:00 +0200
            Re: Debian live installer problems Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-08-20 22:20 +0200
              Re: Debian live installer problems Arjun Krishnan <arjunkc@gmail.com> - 2017-08-20 23:00 +0200
                Re: Debian live installer problems Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-21 01:50 +0200
                Re: Debian live installer problems Arjun Krishnan <arjunkc@gmail.com> - 2017-08-23 04:20 +0200
          Re: Debian live installer problems Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-20 20:00 +0200

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