Bug#739299: [installation-reports] UEFI Install + Crypto/LVM, some issues
Package: installation-reports
Version: Jessie 20140216-10:08
Severity: normal
Boot method: Netinst image on USB stick
Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
Date: 20140216, ~ 18:00UTC
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card: [O]
Configure network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O](*)
Install base system: [O]
Clock/timezone setup: [O]
User/password setup: [O]
Install tasks: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Overall install: [O]
Comments/Problems:
I installed testing from a USB stick with the image:
Debian GNU/Linux testing "Jessie" - Official Snapshot amd64 NETINST
Binary-1 20140216-10:08
on a Lenovo Thinkpad T440s, set up in full UEFI mode (with CSM compatibility
mode turned off).
Everything did eventually work with a few glitches:
* After letting the installer try a "Guided partitioning - use entire disk and
set up encrypted LVM", i decided to redo the partitioning manually, to be able
to change some parameters (smaller EFIboot partition, smaller number of inodes
in ext4 partitions).
After going back to manual partitioning mode, I was not able to find a way to
clear the already defined encrypted disk to be able to start from zero the
manual configuration: i finally had to reboot and restart the installation.
It would be nice to have the possibility to delete the encrypted devices
already defined, or to force the deletion of a partition even if an encrypted
device is already defined on top of it.
* After finishing installation with "Manual partitioning" the encrypted volume
was NOT entered into /etc/crypttab, therefore the system could not
successfully reboot, but ended in the initramfs. After manually adding the
encrypted volume into crypttab everything worked as expected.
* It doesn't seem to be possible (in expert mode) to proceed with an
installation using already (manually) formatted disks, without going through
the "Partition disks" step:
a "Mount disks" step could be really helpful!
Defining the disk type ext4 and the mountpoint for the ext4 partitions i could
avoid getting them reformatted, but the installer did want to unconditionally
reformat my already defined ext2 BOOT partition.
Minor items:
* the trackpad did not work in graphical expert mode, but the trackpoint did
(even if both are enabled in bios)
* it would be nice to have a clear information about what the "standard" type
of ext4 filesystem means in terms of file size. The options "news",
"largefile" and "largefile4" say that they correspond to 4KB, 1MB and 4MB
files respectively. The type "standard" does not say anything.
Thanks for your work,
regards
--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64
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