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

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

Hi Jon,

On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 10:01:44PM +0200, Jon Jahren wrote:
>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/

No, the only thing Debian needs (for now) is the grubx64.efi file. If
it's got that far, then the system should be booting; the problem is
more likely to be somewhere else. What hardware do you have, please?

Also: the issue with the systemd dependency has also been fixed for a
while; the latest alpha build is now quite old and you might also be
better using a recent daily or ewwkly build instead.

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