Bug#954134: [d-i bullseye alpha2] installing grub fails
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 01:00:35PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote:
>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...
One silly question: what media are you using with the Thinkpad? Is it
the same USB stick (or whatever) every time? Can you verify it's
written OK?
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