Hi Andy, Thanks for reporting this.
On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 09:16:14PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: >Package: libefiboot1 >Version: 37-2 >Severity: important > >Dear Maintainer, > >libefiboot in stable and testing fails to parse symlinks such as: > > /sys/dev/block/259:1 -> > ../../devices/virtual/nvme-subsystem/nvme-subsys0/nvme0n1 > >which prevents tools such as grub-install and efibootmgr from working on >my system that has only NVMe drives, thus also preventing a successful >install of buster at the "install bootloader" stage of d-i. > >The problem is fixed upstream here: > > https://github.com/rhboot/efivar/pull/139 > >and that fix is already present in the version of libefiboot1 from >unstable (37-6). I have verified this by forcibly installing the .deb >from unstable on a buster system; this allows tools such as grub-install >and efibootmgr to work successfully. > >Please can this fix be backported to buster so that an install is >possible? I've prepped an update but I don't have any machines that show the problem in the first place to be able to verify 100%. Could I ask you to please try the package versions from https://people.debian.org/~93sam/efivar/ and confirm that they're good for you? Cheers, Steve -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "War does not determine who is right - only who is left." -- Bertrand Russell