Bug#954134: [d-i bullseye alpha2] installing grub fails

[Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>]

Hi,

Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Am Dienstag, 17. März 2020 schrieb Steve McIntyre:
> > Yes, I had it with alpha2, then tested with alpha1 (everything
> > fine) and then again tested with alpha2 to be able to
> > provide logs.
> > 
> > I can do further tests though, with different partitioning
> > scheme or filesystem type...
> 
> I tried different approaches (use only one ext4 partition + swap; use only one
> ext2 partition + swap; use only one xfs partition + swap; create a complete 
> new parition table and then use only one ext4 partition + swap) and all fail 
> with the same error.
> 
> Now I will test again with alpha1 to make sure it is no hardware issue...

With alpha1 it succeeds without problems.
So, there is something different with alpha2...
Note, that this was i386, tested on a real machine (IBM Thinkpad)!

Then I tested an alpha2 netinst amd64 image on QEMU, and it works fine!
Need to find out where the difference is...


Holger


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