Bug#806849: debian-installer: d-i fails to install grub2 correctly for efi system using encrypted LVM
Package: debian-installer
Version: stretch alpha 4
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
Dear Maintainer,
I have a new System76 Oryx Pro laptop using efi boot. Ubuntu installs
successfully but I can't get debian to install using encrypted LVM.
The laptop has an nvme device which requires efi boot so I can't just disable
it. Here are my repro steps:
1. Boot using netinst (tried both stable and testing, stable doesn't work at all I think due to efi?)
2. Performed normal install (tried both text and gui)
3. Included proprietary firmware for wifi from usb key when prompted
4. selected encrypted LVM with separate home partition, changed root partition
to 20GB and made some other lvm adjustments
5. proceeded to install base system successfully
6. when it comes time to install grub, it fails. no better error message
provided, nothing in /var/logs either
The laptop came with working ubuntu on it, and I was able to boot from an ubuntu
live CD. I was able to chroot into the installed system from here and
everything looked right, but I still haven't figured out the right incantation
of grub to get it to install so it will unlock my encrypted drive (right now, it
does boot off the nvme device but drops me to a grub prompt).
Short of becoming a grub wizard, the best way to get my system the way I want it
is probaly to fix the installer =| if there is anything I can do to provide
extra information, please do not hesitate to contact me. I also hang out on
freenode as cmyers.
Thanks!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.1.5-x86_64-linode61 (SMP w/3 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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