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
