Bug#1110534: installation-reports: missing systemd-boot package during install
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: alex.forrence@gmail.com
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Boot method: usb
Image version: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-live-builds/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-testing-amd64-gnome.iso, accessed 7 Aug 2025
Date: 7 Aug 2025
Machine: Dell Precision 3660
Partitions:
$ df -Tl
Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev devtmpfs 7959288 0 7959288 0% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 1606428 1872 1604556 1% /run
efivarfs efivarfs 438 304 130 71% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/mapper/dev--linux--01--vg-root ext4 230643920 10586832 208268188 5% /
tmpfs tmpfs 8032136 12 8032124 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs tmpfs 5120 8 5112 1% /run/lock
tmpfs tmpfs 1024 0 1024 0% /run/credentials/systemd-journald.service
/dev/nvme0n1p2 ext4 965872 165060 734408 19% /boot
tmpfs tmpfs 8032136 84 8032052 1% /tmp
/dev/nvme0n1p1 vfat 997456 159980 837476 17% /boot/efi
tmpfs tmpfs 1606424 144 1606280 1% /run/user/1000
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [o]
Detect network card: [o]
Configure network: [o]
Detect media: [o]
Load installer modules: [o]
Clock/timezone setup: [o]
User/password setup: [o]
Detect hard drives: [o]
Partition hard drives: [o]
Install base system: [o]
Install tasks: [o]
Install boot loader: [e]
Overall install: [o]
Comments/Problems:
I wanted to try out systemd-boot, so went through the text-mode expert install.
Selected defaults for everything up until the bootloader menu entries.
Skipped grub install and selected the systemd-boot entry. A relevant
part of the log is below:
sudo cat /var/log/installer/syslog | grep systemd-boot
Aug 7 18:47:00 anna[2666]: DEBUG: retrieving systemd-boot-installer 0.11
Aug 7 18:54:02 main-menu[463]: INFO: Menu item 'systemd-boot-installer' selected
Aug 7 18:54:02 in-target: Package systemd-boot is not available, but is referred to by another package.
Aug 7 18:54:02 in-target: Package 'systemd-boot' has no installation candidate
Aug 7 18:54:02 main-menu[463]: WARNING **: Configuring 'systemd-boot-installer' failed with error code 100
Aug 7 18:54:02 main-menu[463]: WARNING **: Menu item 'systemd-boot-installer' failed.
Then finished installation with the grub option.
Please make sure that any installation logs that you think would
be useful are attached to this report. (You can find them in the
installer system in /var/log/ and later on the installed system
under /var/log/installer.) Please compress large files using gzip.
-- Package-specific info:
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Installer lsb-release:
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Installer hardware-summary:
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Installer firmware-summary:
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#Package Component Reason
firmware-intel-graphics non-free-firmware dmesg
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