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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: cdimage.debian.org: Missing 'part_gpt' in Release ISO's GRUB EFI -> Debian 8.0 cannot be booted from GPT/FAT32 drive in UEFI mode
- From: Pete <pete@akeo.ie>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 15:59:48 +0100
- Message-id: <20150622145948.1477.64370.reportbug@dusk.obscurity.ie>
Package: cdimage.debian.org
Severity: important
Tags: newcomer
Dear Maintainers,
It appears that the Debian 8.0 "Jessie" ISO release uses a GRUB binary that
doesn't embed the 'part_gpt' GRUB module.
Because of this, if you happen to copy the "Jessie" ISO content onto a FAT32
drive (eg: USB Flash Drive) that was partitioned using GPT, you will end up
with the GRUB rescue prompt when booting on a UEFI system, as GRUB will not be
able to locate the installation files on the GPT drive.
Note that this is only an issue if you copy content into an installation media
that is GPT: If you use 'dd' to create the installation media from the
ISOHybrid, or copy the content to a FAT32 drive that uses the MBR partition
scheme, then the problem does not occur.
Looking at the GRUB EFI binary's strings from the ISO, it seems that 'part_gpt'
was not embedded, which in turn prevents the embedded 'grub.cfg' from locating
the '/.disk/info' marker during the search for the root media, as it cannot
access GPT volumes.
I'm hoping that the GRUB EFI binary can be modified for next ISO release to
include 'part_gpt', as this should prevent this issue.
The expectation is that Windows users, who may have heard that simply copying
the Debian ISO content on a FAT32 drive should work with UEFI systems (and who
prefer using that method because they find DD/image tools a bit daunting), will
encounter this issue if they happen to copy the ISO data onto a drive that was
partitioned in GPT mode.
This is also a problem for Windows USB installation tools, such as Rufus, if
you set the USB partition scheme to GPT, as it also uses the ISO -> FAT32 copy
method.
* What led up to the situation?
Trying to install Debian 8.0 in UEFI mode on an intel NUC (D54250WYK), after
copying the whole ISO content to an USB drive with a single GPT/FAT32
partition.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
Tried to use the GRUB rescue prompt, but was unable access the USB disk.
After recreating the USB installation media using an MBR/FAT32 partition, I
found that it worked, which demonstrates that this is a GPT vs MBR partition
scheme issue.
Finally, looking at the GRUB binary on the Release ISO, it seems pretty clear
that the 'part_gpt' module is missing, which I believe is required, even in
UEFI mode, to access GPT partitioned drives.
Regards,
/Pete
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- Subject: Bug#789600: fixed in debian-installer 20160101
- From: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
- Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 18:04:24 +0000
- Message-id: <E1aF43s-0007O5-A5@franck.debian.org>
Source: debian-installer
Source-Version: 20160101
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debian-installer, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 789600@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (supplier of updated debian-installer package)
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Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 18:46:41 +0100
Source: debian-installer
Binary: debian-installer
Architecture: source
Version: 20160101
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Description:
debian-installer - Debian Installer documentation
Closes: 722735 789600 803711 805321 807716 808875 809301
Changes:
debian-installer (20160101) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Karsten Merker ]
* Provide u-boot and SD-card images for the LinkSprite pcDuino.
.
[ Cyril Brulebois ]
* Adjust p-u support to handle file:// instead of (f|ht)tp:// only,
thanks to Łukasz Stelmach for both the report and the patch
(Closes: #803711).
.
[ Samuel Thibault ]
* Bump hurd kernel version.
* Prevent spurious speech synthesis boot entry.
.
[ Vagrant Cascadian ]
* bootscr.mainline_common: Prefer newer u-boot distro_bootpart variable.
.
[ Cyril Brulebois ]
* Cherry-pick the following changes by Steven Chamberlain from the
jessie-kfreebsd branch.
* build/Makefile: Rename GZIP into gzip, and pass an extra -T to pigz
(it needs both -n and -T to behave as gzip's -n).
* build/config/x86.cfg: Also pass -n to gzip.
* Bump linux kernel version from 4.2.0-1 to 4.3.0-1
* Replace the module-init-tools build-dep with a kmod one since the
transitional package got dropped in kmod/22-1.
* Apply patch from gregor herrmann to fix new warnings with perl 5.22
(Closes: #808875). Thanks!
* Update copyright years on the F10 help screen.
* Update translation-status for the release.
.
[ Steven Chamberlain ]
* Improve reproducibility of debian-installer netboot images
(Closes: #805321):
* Add a new utility build/util/gen-tarball to make reproducible
tarballs, and use it for:
- netboot.tar.gz
- debian-cd_info.tar.gz
- the overall debian-installer-images tar.gz file.
* Inhibit gzip timestamp in initrd.gz
* Ensure SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is exported throughout the build system,
define it if unset, or fall back to 'now' if build/Makefile is
directly invoked.
.
[ Steve McIntyre ]
* Add the part_gpt module into the core grub image to make it easier
for users doing slightly different things with our images; include
support for GPT partition tables as well as msdos (Closes: #789600).
.
[ Ben Hutchings ]
* Include leds-modules on armhf if available
* Update i386 config to use 686 kernel flavour instead of 586
.
[ Martin Michlmayr ]
* Update docs to reflect that Package-Type and Installer-Menu-Item
are official fields nowadays (Closes: #807716).
* Remove minix-modules from the orion5x network-console image since
it was only required by the D-Link DNS-323, a device that's no longer
supported.
* Exclude usb-serial-modules from the armel network-console image
since it's not useful there (Closes: #809301).
* Exclude usb-modules explicitly on armel/orion5x network-console
to work around a bug in util/pkg-list.
* Stop including sata and ext2/ext3 modules on the armel/orion5x
network-console image due to size limitations on QNAP TS-x09.
* Drop the file extension from the initrd for QNAP devices.
* Re-introduce installer images for QNAP TS-x09.
* Recognize /dev/disk1_1 and /dev/ls_disk1_1 as boot devices
on Linkstation. Thanks Roger Shimizu (Closes: 722735).
.
[ John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ]
* Set KERNELVERSION for sparc64 to $(LINUX_KERNEL_ABI)-sparc64.
* Set KEYRING to debian-ports on sparc64.
* Add silo to Build-Depends on sparc64.
* Fix typo (problimatic -> problematic) in silo comment.
* Clone boot configuration files from sparc for sparc64.
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