Bug#1110534: installation-reports: missing systemd-boot package during install
Control: severity -1 serious
On Fri, Aug 08, 2025 at 01:30:08PM +0200, Roland Clobus wrote:
>On 08/08/2025 01:13, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>> On 07/08/2025 à 23:29, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> >
>> > This is a deliberate choice so far, as discussed with the systemd
>> > maintainer. systemd-boot is not a default option for installation and
>> > so isn't included in all the images by default. If you make sure you
>> > use a network mirror during installation, things should work fine.
>>
>> I just tested, it also fails because no mirror is configured. During the
>> "configure package manager" step, the mirror selection does not happen.
>> The package apt-mirror-setup seems to be missing in trixie live images.
>
>The version of the Debian installer on the live images is tweaked to perform
>(at least) 2 things differently than the installer on the netinst images:
>1) it copies the content of the live system to the HD instead of performing a
>clean installation
>2) it assumes off-line installation
It seems this second decision is causing a *lot* of confusion for
users. We should try to get this fixed for the upcoming point release,
IMHO.
Raising severity of this accordingly.
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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