Control: reassign -1 grub-installer Control: found -1 1.85 Control: severity important Hi Steve, Steve Rowe <sarowe@gmail.com> (2015-05-12): > Package: debian-installer > Version: 20150422 > Severity: critical > Tags: d-i patch > Justification: breaks the whole system Failing to install isn't breaking the whole system. ;) > Dear Maintainer, > > I used the Jessie DVD installer on a system with an NVMe SSD add-in-card > (PCIe) that I wanted to make bootable, but there were two problems that > halted the process: > > 1. In the install-the-base-system step, the initial ram disk creation step > failed because it couldn't translate the nvme device name (nvme0n1p3) to the > base name (nvme0n1). > > I reported #1, with a patch, at <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=785147>. ACK, thanks. > 2. In the boot loader installation step, the boot loader installation > script again couldn't translate nvme0n1p3 to nvme0n1. > > When I modified grub-installer to work with my NVMe disk, I missed the > fact that it wasn't installed on permanent media, so I lost those > changes. The attached patch is my attempt at reconstructing what > worked for me, so *please bear in mind that I have not tested it*. > One additional note: since I use the Linux kernel, my patch does not > change the "hurd_convert" function, and looking at it, I'm guessing it > should be modified too. I'll have a look shortly and push something. Provided the patch for #785147 is backported to jessie, we might do that as well. Mraw, KiBi.
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