Re: Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-27 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Thank you for the discussion! I found it educational and motivating, and hope that everyone found the same. It's really refreshing to see this. Sorry for the naivety in my analysis and in the delay replying; I've been drained/busy, but I read each of your emails carefully, wanted to reply to

Re: Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-07 Thread TomK
#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr (Speaking only on my own behalf, not on behalf of the TC, here) On Fri, 03 Dec 2021 at 16:08:24 -0500, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > 1. Debian isn't yet ready for usrmerge Merged /usr is not actually the problem here, altho

Re: Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steve McIntyre (2021-12-06): > In fact, it needed more work than that - the code chrooted into > /target and ran mount there. That didn't work for a separate /usr. But > I've refactored the code and made things work more cleanly inside d-i. > > I'm pondering backporting the same fix for future

Re: Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 10:42:29PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 11:37:28PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >>Le 03/12/2021 à 22:08, Nicholas D Steeves a écrit : >>> >>> >>> c) parse /target/etc/fstab, and attempt to mount other partitions >> >>The rescue system already

Re: Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 11:37:28PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >Le 03/12/2021 à 22:08, Nicholas D Steeves a écrit : >> >> >> c) parse /target/etc/fstab, and attempt to mount other partitions > >The rescue system already offers to do it for separate /boot and /boot/efi, >so why couldn't it

Re: Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-04 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 03/12/2021 à 22:08, Nicholas D Steeves a écrit : c) parse /target/etc/fstab, and attempt to mount other partitions The rescue system already offers to do it for separate /boot and /boot/efi, so why couldn't it do for separate /usr too ?

Re: Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-04 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 03.12.2021 um 22:08 schrieb Nicholas D Steeves: 2. Reassign to src:rescue, and fix the rescue system. Looks like a duplicate of https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=769738

Re: Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-04 Thread Simon McVittie
(Speaking only on my own behalf, not on behalf of the TC, here) On Fri, 03 Dec 2021 at 16:08:24 -0500, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > 1. Debian isn't yet ready for usrmerge Merged /usr is not actually the problem here, although it exacerbates what appears to be a pre-existing bug in the rescue

Re: Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 04:08:24PM -0500, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > Control: severity -1 serious > Control: tags = confirmed > > CCing the release team, and CTTE because I don't know who else is > tracking issues related to the usrmerge effort. I've consciously chosen > not to pour gasoline on

Re: Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-03 Thread Bastian Blank
Control: severity -1 normal On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 04:08:24PM -0500, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > Steps I used to try to reproduce: > > 1. Downloaded debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso2021-12-03 16:21 408M > 2. Installed to EFI-enabled qemu eg: >kvm -bios /usr/share/ovmf/bios.bin -m 2G

Re: Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-03 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Control: severity -1 serious Control: tags = confirmed CCing the release team, and CTTE because I don't know who else is tracking issues related to the usrmerge effort. I've consciously chosen not to pour gasoline on the flame war by CCing anyone else (nor will I contact anyone else about the