Hi!
I have been testing the installation of GRUB in debian-installer on disks
with GPT labels. Unfortunately, that doesn't work as grub-install
complains it cannot find the filesystem for /dev/vdiska1.
Looking at the partition table with parted, it seems that the actual problem
is a corrupted GPT partition table (see below).
Since a new partition table is created by debian-installer, it shouldn't be
corrupted at this point. So, I'm wondering what problem we are running
into.
I will have a look at the partman-partitioning source code but if someone
wants to perform their own tests in the meantime, the test installation
image can be found here:
> https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-cd/debian-10.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso
Adrian
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root@debian:/# parted /dev/vdiska
GNU Parted 3.2
Using /dev/vdiska
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) p
Error: /dev/vdiska: unrecognised disk label
Model: Unknown (unknown)
Disk /dev/vdiska: 17.2GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/8192B
Partition Table: unknown
Disk Flags:
(parted) q
root@debian:/# fdisk -l /dev/vdiska
The primary GPT table is corrupt, but the backup appears OK, so that will be used.
Disk /dev/vdiska: 16 GiB, 17179869184 bytes, 33554432 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 8192 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 8192 bytes / 8192 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 2D6D55DD-FA7D-41E8-8920-919C31964B57
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/vdiska1 2048 29687807 29685760 14.2G Linux filesystem
/dev/vdiska2 29687808 33552383 3864576 1.9G Linux swap
root@debian:/#
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.''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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`. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de
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