Trying to install Debian 8.8 - No EMMC found
 

Hello,

Trying to install Debian 8.8 on an Aspire One AO1-132-C129 and when the install gets to media detection it doesn't see the internal 32GB HD. Anyone familiar with that ?

I have eMMC on my hp stream 11 and haven't had an issue. Except when I tried freeBSD 9.x-ish, it didn't see the eMMC at all. Have you tried creating a USB bootable install from another machine and booting it on that one? Normally the eMMC shows up as /dev/mmcblk0, or at least that's how it does on the hp stream 11. But I don't do installer installs per say, debootstrap installs from existing installs. I just created a debian stretch install that way a couple days ago. It was a little rough getting that first boot, but that's more because I broke the LCD on the laptop and the cursor bump to select the drive differs from my other hp stream 11 with a good LCD.

If the system has uefi, the bios may not allow access to the emmc in legacy modes.

Could be Debian doesn't have the chipset support.

See if Ubuntu LTS will begin an install under uefi. There may be a number of settings in bios that can affect hardware. Stupid uefi.

Thanks for the help.

Ubuntu will install and is currently running on the machine. The machine boot the USB drive in LEGACY mode, however in UEFI mode it won't boot the USB drive. Secure Boot is disabled and F12 brings up GRUB with no option other than selecting an Ubuntu boot mode.

I'm still hacking away at this thing.

You need to create a uefi usb. How did you make this usb and from what iso image?

I have debian live, which I now know doesn't support UEFI and I have

debian-8.8.0-i386-DVD-1.iso

however when I install this it wants to install from cdrom and doesn't see my USB, even though the installer was on the USB drive. Can I link /mnt/cdrom to whatever /dev/sdx the USB is on and proceed as normal ?

How are you making these usb's?

Note.
Some dvd images placed to usb will continue to seem like they are saying or using dvd when in fact you really are on usb.