Debian 12 - Bookworm Live installer ISO for linuxcnc (x86_64)

Solved it. The official installer allowed me to boot the install usb in MRB mode. But I pulled my hair out getting it to work. I turned off all RAID settings. Then I noticed when I used the guided disk formatting that the root partition was not marked as bootable. I manually changed that and now it’s booted … time for a brew.


I tried creating a boot usb drive with a dd command for the custom installer. I could not get it to boot in efi or mrb mode. Only after burning it with balena etcher could I boot the install usb in efi mode. Efi mode didn’t work with either installer for me.

What I think I learned: Depending on your bios settings the installer will take one of two paths. For legacy bios boot settings it’s an MBR install, and for uefi bios settings it’s an efi install. The MBR install requires that the root \ file system is marked bootable and the guided partitioner doesn’t automatically do this. I did it manually. The EFI install doesn’t have a partition marked as bootable.

Great stuff!
Odd, I have 2 dual boot uefi PC's 
With Windows on one drive and Debian on the other.
I had no problems on either.
(It is a very rare day that I boot into Windows)
If you do do this, turn off the bitlocker on Windows Drive C and let it unlock everything first, to Access it from debian

Thanks Rod. Just thru a copy up on a spare NUC for testing. Worked a charm.

This is now final and the first post has been updated accordingly.
Most of the recent changes have just been around bringing the deployment of third party repositories to best ractice to reduce any attack window
A README.md file is deployed to all user's home folders that outline how to upgrade linuxcnc and install QTPYVCP, probe basic etc,  ethercat and a fork of the ethercat hal driver. Many thanks to Bjarne at iGH the owners of th eethercat master we use to clean up the hal driver for me for this project.

So hopefully Linuxcnc will adopt this proven .ISO when they finally release V 2.9 in a few days.

Don't ask me how many times I have installed linuxcnc in the last week or so!

The adventurous can clone my repository and build it themselves!
github.com/rodw-au/linuxcnc-live-build

Hello,

thanks for your work!

I cannot find the download link in the first post.

Many thanks!

BR Anton

Ooops. try this, 

drive.google.com/file/d/1s2Te9JtXxb8yB9r.../view?usp=drive_link

I will update the first post when i get a chance