Debian – USB keyboard doesn’t work with Debian installer

Solution to issue: Not all input packages installed for xserver.

If you are running into this issue of mouse and keyboard not working, make sure you have all the xserver packages installed. Sometimes this issue happens when not all input packages are installed.

To fix this issue quickly, install the metapackage xorg:

apt install xorg

This meta package makes sure that all the required packages are installed for a fully functioning xserver system. This is current for Debian Stretch (as of this writing) This is a very old post, but I came across it with the same problem and this solution worked for me.

What do you want from that LiveCD? Maybe a DVD that boots for you is fine for that if it lends you a shell (try Ctrl-Alt-F2/F3/...) and provides the tools needed.

Try getting to the console, chrooting into the system installed (but lacking the bootloader) and running grub-install (with no additional arguments) by hand to see the error message. Did you mount ESP into /boot/efi/?

Rod's books page on the topic is also highly recommended.

How exactly did you write the ISO to the pendrive? dd(1) or a win32 equivalent like SUSE Image Writer should do fine.

Shameless plug: I have implemented UEFI support in ALT Linux, and if our regular builds work for you then I can probably translate/explain the relevant bits of mkimage-profiles documentation so you can prepare the derivative needed (or use it to prepare a bootable root so that you can work on your Debian installation with comfort). Didn't get around to testing wheezy's release UEFI behaviour but d-i beta4 had some troubles with bootloader installation as well.