Bug#925556: UEFI or not, can't mount /dev

2019-03-29 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Trying again with expert install and some different choices, and putting nomodeset in the grub finally booted it. I'll send new logs soon.

Bug#925556: UEFI or not, can't mount /dev

2019-03-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
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Bug#925556: UEFI or not, can't mount /dev

2019-03-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
I tried installing again. (This time with no network.) The normal graphical install. All goes fine, but in the logs there is one "Failed to get": $ grep -A 2 'Failed to get' syslog |cut -c 17- base-installer: warning: Failed to get debconf answer 'base-installer/kernel/linux/initrd'.

Bug#925556: UEFI or not, can't mount /dev

2019-03-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 12:37:52AM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: >> "SM" == Steve McIntyre writes: >SM> Please attach the installer syslog so we have a chance to see what >SM> happened. On the installed system, that's in /var/log/installer/syslog > >What should I give at that >initramfs

Bug#925556: UEFI or not, can't mount /dev

2019-03-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> "SM" == Steve McIntyre writes: SM> Please attach the installer syslog so we have a chance to see what SM> happened. On the installed system, that's in /var/log/installer/syslog What should I give at that initramfs prompt you see that would put it on the screen? Then I could take a

Bug#925556: UEFI or not, can't mount /dev

2019-03-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 12:07:11PM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: >LS> Clearly the initramfs was able to mount /dev and run fsck, but mounting >LS> it to /root/dev to transfer to the real rootfs failed due to a missing >LS> directory. > >So it booted, meaning it is not a

Bug#925556: UEFI or not, can't mount /dev

2019-03-26 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
LS> Clearly the initramfs was able to mount /dev and run fsck, but mounting LS> it to /root/dev to transfer to the real rootfs failed due to a missing LS> directory. So it booted, meaning it is not a https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/ch03s06.html.en#UEFI problem...

Bug#925556: UEFI or not, can't mount /dev

2019-03-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 07:13:21PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 02:58:36AM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > >Package: debian-installer > > > >Guess what, seen with ASUS X370-A: > > Dan, you know better than this. A useful bug report needs much more > information. For a

Bug#925556: UEFI or not, can't mount /dev

2019-03-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 02:58:36AM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: >Package: debian-installer > >Guess what, seen with ASUS X370-A: Dan, you know better than this. A useful bug report needs much more information. For a start, what image did you use to install with? This looks like it *might* be on