Hi, наб <[email protected]> (2025-12-14): > I recently installed trixie on an EFI amd64 system. > > By definition, this means I have a vfat partition which is required for > booting (and indeed I had an ESP on /dev/vda1). > Additionally, /etc/fstab for /boot/efi has a fs_passno field of 1, > so fscking is explicitly enabled. > > And yet! I don't have a fsck.vfat, so it doesn't get checked, ever. > > I think the target ought to have a fsck for all the filesystems > configured in d-i anyway (but especially when it's part of the boot > sequence), so d-i ought to pull in dosfstools I think?
Without knowing much about any possible decision against doing so… what
you're suggesting makes sense to me.
But from a quick look, I think this should be happening already?
commit 859ba462b5b1fc4e2c2a654a7263856905af51ce (tag: 163)
Author: Steve McIntyre <[email protected]>
Date: Mon May 15 22:59:30 2023 +0100
Install dosfstools if we have a FAT ESP
That should be the case for bookworm (164) and trixie (174).
https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/partman-basicfilesystems/-/commit/859ba462b5b1fc4e2c2a654a7263856905af51ce
Any traces of trying (and maybe failing) to get that package installed?
See /var/log/syslog at runtime, and /var/log/installer/syslog afterwards.
Cheers,
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