Bug#823541: debian-installer: Debian installer does not create a bootable system on EFI

[Jon Jahren <jj@linux.com>]

Package: debian-installer
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

When attempting to install Debian testing on an efi system using a nightly
build because the alpha installer stalls with a systemd dependency, the efi
partition it creates does not boot, and you have to install in legacy mode to
get it to boot as normal. The problem with this though, is that the legacy mode
does not correctly detect other efi installations(e.g Windows).

>From what I gather, after manually mounting the efi system boot after
installing a legacy boot system, some files are missing. The only file I have
is grubx64.efi, while for instance an Ubuntu install has:
grubx64.efi
shimx64
MokManager.efi
grub.cfg
fwupx64.efi
fw/

I tried copying some of the files over to the debian folder and edit the
grub.cfg file, but it didn't have any effect.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Regards
Jon



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/12 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)