Hi again, Please accept my apologies for the very long delay in responding to you. I've had a really busy time with 3 back-to-back conferences and I'm just catching up on mail now. :-/
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 06:21:32PM +0200, Leonid Khorolets wrote: >сб, 25 січ. 2020 о 17:03 Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> пише: >> >> Hi Leonid, >> >> On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 03:55:45PM +0200, Leonid Khorolets wrote: >> >пʼятниця, 24 січня 2020 р. Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> пише: >> > >> > OK, that's odd. This normally works fine for other people. Can you >> > tell me a little more about your system please? Do you have logs from >> > the installation still? Did the installer report problems? >> > >> >i can reinstall.... this is vm(gen-2) at hyper-v . >> > >> >no errors during installation. >> > >> >could you tell me where can i find installation logs? >> >> After the installation is complete and you have reinstalled, the logs >> should be in /var/log/installer. The main useful file there is the syslog. > >find next strange logs at /var/log/installer/syslog: >"Jan 27 15:54:47 grub-installer: info: Installing grub on 'dummy' >Jan 27 15:54:47 grub-installer: info: grub-install does not support --no-floppy >Jan 27 15:54:47 grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target >grub-install --force "dummy" >Jan 27 15:54:47 grub-installer: Installing for x86_64-efi platform. >Jan 27 15:54:50 grub-installer: grub-install: warning: >vars_get_variable: >open(/sys/firmware/efi/vars/blk0-47c7b225-c42a-11d2-8e57-00a0c969723b/raw_var, >O_RDONLY) failed: No such file or directory. >Jan 27 15:54:50 grub-installer: grub-install: warning: >efi_get_variable: ops->get_variable failed: No such file or directory. >Jan 27 15:54:50 grub-installer: grub-install: warning: device_get: >Cannot parse device link segment "h<E5>^A<EA>@<FC><9C> <F8><B1><94>f ><90>`<FF>RF09h<F7>n^[^D<82>E^GK ><95>E<B5><A5>:+<D5>^P<D7><D7><EA><FB><87>s<F5>R\<A6><B7>ء?^CV^P<E6><94>ڠ<95>c<9C>A+^S<FD>f<EA>L<F4> >Jan 27 15:54:50 grub-installer: ><A1><BE>C<D4>^?q<D4>{3,ԃ<B3>Ϫ^A<8A>,B}<8F><A8>ϗ0T<C1>^Lm_ ><D9><F7>": Success. >Jan 27 15:54:50 grub-installer: grub-install: warning: >efi_va_generate_file_device_path_from_esp: could not get ESP disk >info: Success. >Jan 27 15:54:50 grub-installer: grub-install: warning: >efi_generate_file_device_path_from_esp: could not generate File DP >from ESP: Success. >Jan 27 15:54:50 grub-installer: Installation finished. No error reported. >Jan 27 15:54:50 grub-installer: info: grub-install ran successfully >" OK, these are error messages from Colin's new grub-install code. He might be able to help some more with that. I've added him in CC so he's aware of the problem here. >I tested debian9 installation - all ok. In /var/log/installer/syslog >the command "grub-install --force dummy" was runned without errors: >Jan 27 10:55:15 grub-installer: info: Installing grub on 'dummy' >Jan 27 10:55:15 grub-installer: info: grub-install does not support --no-floppy >Jan 27 10:55:15 grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target >grub-install --force "dummy" >Jan 27 10:55:15 grub-installer: Installing for x86_64-efi platform. >Jan 27 10:55:19 grub-installer: Installation finished. No error reported. >Jan 27 10:55:19 grub-installer: info: grub-install ran successfully ACK. Debian 9 used a different code path here, and that clearly behaved differently on your setup. Thanks for the extra information - that could be really useful. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "C++ ate my sanity" -- Jon Rabone