On 2021-02-15, Vieno Hakkerinen wrote:
> I created a ext2 for /boot and luks+lvm+btrfs for /. As d-i defaults
> to use a @rootfs subvolume for btrfs the linux bootargs need to have
> set "rootflags=subvol=@rootfs". This was not set during configuration
> of flash-kernel. Without this argument debian failed to boot with an
> error that no init was found.

>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
>
> debian-installer should set "rootflags=subvol=@rootfs" in 
> /etc/default/flash-kernel when btrfs is used for /

>    * What did you do to solve the problem?
>
> 1. I ran "setenv bootargs rootflags=subvol=@rootfs" in u-boot
> 2. I ran "boot" in u-boot
> 3. debian found init successfully
> 4. I added "rootflags=subvol=@rootfs" to LINUX_KERNEL_CMDLINE_DEFAULTS in 
> /etc/default/flash-kernel
> 5. I ran flash-kernel
> 6. I rebooted
> 7. debian booted successfully

So, flash-kernel-installer has a debconf question that might be useable
for this purpose:

flash-kernel-installer.postinst.in:echo flash-kernel flash-kernel/linux_cmdline 
string $kopt_params | \
flash-kernel-installer.postinst.in-     chroot /target debconf-set-selections

I'm curious how other systems handle btrfs (e.g. grub on amd64); are
there any configuration options passed via debian-installer to set
"rootflags=subvol=@rootfs", or does grub have any configuration that are
set from update-grub or whatever ... or autodetected when rootfs is on
btrfs?


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