Bug#775109: marked as done (debian-installer: fails to format existing EFI system partition if fat32)
Your message dated Mon, 12 Jan 2015 14:27:21 + with message-id 20150112142721.gc13...@einval.com and subject line Re: Bug#775109: debian-installer: fails to format existing EFI system partition if fat32 has caused the Debian Bug report #775109, regarding debian-installer: fails to format existing EFI system partition if fat32 to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact ow...@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 775109: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775109 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems ---BeginMessage--- Package: debian-installer Version: 20150107 I've tried using each beta2 + a daily image (from 20150109) to install debian on a laptop, which already had partitions in place. This includes an EFI partition, which was formatted on a previous distribution using mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/foo During installation of jessie, the installer recognized the partition well, and allowed me to delete the contents. However, it refused to easily allow me to format it, always opting to keep the data (shown with a K in the summary page). I suspect that the debian installer wasn't quite sure how to handle it being 32-bit, as the D-I seems to prefer and use 16. As a result, the partitioning failed. I was eventually able to go back, and after some selecting/un-selecting, finally noticed that the installer flagged the partition with f for format. ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 09:20:02AM -0500, Andrew Brouwers wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 9:47 PM, Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com wrote: Very off - that doesn't match my own memory of testing this. We also ^odd - oops! :-) deliberately choose to format with FAT32 on amd64! Hmmm, curious now - is there anything special about the NLS settings of the earlier OS, maybe? Not to my knowledge, no; the partitioning was done from scratch using gdisk, and the fat32 partition (for the ESP) was created with mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sdaX . D-I recognized the partition as ESP without issue, but failed when I tried to re-use it (ie, selecting manual partitioning), regardless if I erased the contents or not. It's working fine now, so perhaps I have a weird scenario, and the bug should be closed. I won't be too willing to re-create the issue, since Jessie is up and running quite well! OK, fair enough. :-) Thanks a lot for your review. No problem! Closing the bug now... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. -- James D. Nicoll---End Message---
Re: Install report with UEFI Debian CD on HP elitebook 840 G1
Hmmm, sounds like a BIOS/firmware bug if you need to add that custom boot method - UEFI boot option registration should work without that. After the install, the computer booted to windows. Using the bios bootmenu (F9) the default option is OS Boot Manager that boots windows. But debian is present in the menu at the last position and selecting it successfully boot debian. In the bios setup (F10), in the boot option menu, I can change the order of the boot options but there is no debian present in the list : only OS Boot Manager, a lot of hardware boot option like USD Hard Drive or SD Card, the last option is Customized Boot. So I just moved Customized Boot to the first place and give it the value recommended by https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/HP/EliteBook%20840%20G1 Also: you've tried my unofficial Jessie development image - is that because the standard images didn't work, or is this just the first image you tried? I tried first a daily USB image from http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/ But: * I had to use UEFI Hybrid (With CSM) (instead of UEFI Boot only (Without CSM)) so that the bios can see the USB key * The install was successful but it seems that the grub install silently failed since, after the reboot, there was no debian (or any new option) in the boot menu * I retried the USB key in rescue mode, so I can force-install grub manually but it failed (I do not remember the error message) and the grub-efi version did not work either because no EFI (no /sys/firmware/efi/ ). It is possible that the bios option UEFI Hybrid (With CSM) hides the EFI to the installer * Seeing that the installer did not like the EFI, I remembered http://blog.einval.com/2015/01/11#Jessie-EFI_5 and just tried the proposed image * I reseted the bios to UEFI Boot only (Without CSM) and the bios showed the new USB key, so could retry the install. -- Jean PRIVAT, professeur/professor Département d'informatique/Department of Computer Science U.Q.A.M. CP , succ. centre-ville Montréal (Québec) Canada H3C 3P8 Bureau/Office: PK-4830 Site/Web: http://info.uqam.ca/~privat/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/camqw0op_op4qsufcw6bdwyky_xdwkhk0m2r70pyvmn8jue-...@mail.gmail.com
Specifying mount options to partman-auto
Hi
I would like to specify mount options to partman-auto in a preseed conf
file.
For instance, i have this code
4000 12000 12000 ext4 \
$primary{ } \
method{ format } format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 }\
mountpoint{ / } \
options/noatime{ noatime } \
options/nodiratime{ nodiratime }\
options/discard{ discard } \
options/async{ async } \
options/commit{ commit=600 }\
. \
It seems that the options aren't taken into account.
My questions are :
- is there any way to check the parsing of the partman-auto specs
(like debconf-set-selection -c with the preseed file) ?
- where is the code that handle options in partman-auto (i have
searched in partman-{base,partitioning,auto} without success ?
- is it intended to work this way ?
Thank for your help.
Regards.
Paul.
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Re: Install report with UEFI Debian CD on HP elitebook 840 G1
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 03:40:50PM -0500, Jean Privat wrote: Yes, that sounds like the problem. You've ended up booting in BIOS mode, so the installer can't do any EFI things at all. Roughly when did you try this daily image? In the last month or so, or older than that? last wednesday if I remember correctly. so 2015-01-07 OK, thanks. * Seeing that the installer did not like the EFI, I remembered http://blog.einval.com/2015/01/11#Jessie-EFI_5 and just tried the proposed image * I reseted the bios to UEFI Boot only (Without CSM) and the bios showed the new USB key, so could retry the install. OK, that's very odd. You've booted using 64-bit grub-efi. But the new image *shouldn't* be showing any differences there! Can you test something else for me please? What does # cat /sys/firmware/efi/fw_platform_size say on the installed system, please? This file does not exist neither on the installed system, nor within the installer from the USB stick that contains your upload2 image. I tried to `find` it but still nothing. The file fw_vendor exists and contains 0xbb32e318 Ah, sorry - I got confused. Tha file should exist in the upload3 image. If it's not too much trouble, could I ask you to try that please, and run 64-bit install? I've got a suspicion that your system is a bit odd! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Support the Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression: http://www.eff.org/cafe/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150112204754.gu21...@einval.com
Re: Install report with UEFI Debian CD on HP elitebook 840 G1
Yes, that sounds like the problem. You've ended up booting in BIOS mode, so the installer can't do any EFI things at all. Roughly when did you try this daily image? In the last month or so, or older than that? last wednesday if I remember correctly. so 2015-01-07 * Seeing that the installer did not like the EFI, I remembered http://blog.einval.com/2015/01/11#Jessie-EFI_5 and just tried the proposed image * I reseted the bios to UEFI Boot only (Without CSM) and the bios showed the new USB key, so could retry the install. OK, that's very odd. You've booted using 64-bit grub-efi. But the new image *shouldn't* be showing any differences there! Can you test something else for me please? What does # cat /sys/firmware/efi/fw_platform_size say on the installed system, please? This file does not exist neither on the installed system, nor within the installer from the USB stick that contains your upload2 image. I tried to `find` it but still nothing. The file fw_vendor exists and contains 0xbb32e318 -- Jean PRIVAT, professeur/professor Département d'informatique/Department of Computer Science U.Q.A.M. CP , succ. centre-ville Montréal (Québec) Canada H3C 3P8 Bureau/Office: PK-4830 Site/Web: http://info.uqam.ca/~privat/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/camqw0on3kqfwcjqvdtqosrvahjczmc+rq9k4283f2d46t-b...@mail.gmail.com
Bug#775138: Acknowledgement (debian-installer: Preseed partition scheme fails with No root filesystem is defined.)
Hi, Sorry to waste your time, but you can close this bug. User error. Cheers Iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54b43087.40...@thargoid.co.uk
Re: Install report with UEFI Debian CD on HP elitebook 840 G1
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 09:35:30AM -0500, Jean Privat wrote: Hmmm, sounds like a BIOS/firmware bug if you need to add that custom boot method - UEFI boot option registration should work without that. After the install, the computer booted to windows. Using the bios bootmenu (F9) the default option is OS Boot Manager that boots windows. But debian is present in the menu at the last position and selecting it successfully boot debian. In the bios setup (F10), in the boot option menu, I can change the order of the boot options but there is no debian present in the list : only OS Boot Manager, a lot of hardware boot option like USD Hard Drive or SD Card, the last option is Customized Boot. So I just moved Customized Boot to the first place and give it the value recommended by https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/HP/EliteBook%20840%20G1 Also: you've tried my unofficial Jessie development image - is that because the standard images didn't work, or is this just the first image you tried? I tried first a daily USB image from http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/ But: * I had to use UEFI Hybrid (With CSM) (instead of UEFI Boot only (Without CSM)) so that the bios can see the USB key * The install was successful but it seems that the grub install silently failed since, after the reboot, there was no debian (or any new option) in the boot menu * I retried the USB key in rescue mode, so I can force-install grub manually but it failed (I do not remember the error message) and the grub-efi version did not work either because no EFI (no /sys/firmware/efi/ ). It is possible that the bios option UEFI Hybrid (With CSM) hides the EFI to the installer Yes, that sounds like the problem. You've ended up booting in BIOS mode, so the installer can't do any EFI things at all. Roughly when did you try this daily image? In the last month or so, or older than that? * Seeing that the installer did not like the EFI, I remembered http://blog.einval.com/2015/01/11#Jessie-EFI_5 and just tried the proposed image * I reseted the bios to UEFI Boot only (Without CSM) and the bios showed the new USB key, so could retry the install. OK, that's very odd. You've booted using 64-bit grub-efi. But the new image *shouldn't* be showing any differences there! Can you test something else for me please? What does # cat /sys/firmware/efi/fw_platform_size say on the installed system, please? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150112171749.gh13...@einval.com
