Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> (2015-11-28): > Control: reassign -1 grub-installer 1.117 > Control: severity -1 important > Control: retitle -1 grub-installer: too much hardcoding of device names, fails with /dev/nvme* > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 00:06:57 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > Installation went fine (well, had to stay close to the screen because > > the text was quite small on this high-dpi display) until the > > grub-installer step. Which failed horribly, I think because the > > /dev/nvme0n1 device name for the drive isn't expected. See attached > > excerpt from syslog (contains a few invocations of grub-installer while > > I was trying to understand what was going on; the last one has > > DEBCONF_DEBUG and set -x enabled. > > > Reassigning. sid/stretch should be behaving better since 1.122 was supposed to introduce support for NVMe devices, but I botched it. 1.128 will hopefully fix this, but confirmations are welcome: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/grub-installer.git/commit/?id=fa658f8a8fbd9179a5ae3abae14b6c906f6ee620 Backports of the relevant commits for grub-installer, along with: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/debian-installer-utils.git/commit/?id=ad2213befaa67a95943b3f13b50fd73b6dc849bb for debian-installer-utils might be a good idea. I've added that to my jessie pu todo list. Carl: This should be fixed with the next d-i alpha/beta. Mraw, KiBi.
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