Re: Debian 12.6.0 netinst and VirtualBox in EFI mode

["Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com>]

On Fri, Aug 09, 2024 at 08:02:55PM +0200, Łukasz Kalamłacki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Did you guys tried to run installation of Debian 12.6.0 from netinst on
> VirtualBox from current Debian SID in EFI mode?
> 

Hi Lukasz

Firstly: Virtualbox is in Sid (and nowhere else now) because of upstream
and Debian differences of opinion with regard to security. It will never
be in stable because of this.

Secondly: Breakage in Sid is to be expected to some extent. If it's
an issue of Sid as the underlying operating system - on the broken 
system, you get to keep both pieces :)

So you have two elements both of which are less supportable than
corresponding Debian stable.

I'm fairly sure I saw a bug report about EFI breakage in Sid at
some point recently. It's no particular help but the netinst is 
probably not at fault in that I can install it under VMWare
on a Mac / kvm and qemu on a Linux system. 12.7 should be produced
on August 31st or so.

All the very best, as ever,

Andy
(amacater@debian.org) 

> I was able to install Debian 12.6.0 only in non EFI mode on VB.
> 
> Do you confirm my finding?
> 
> 
> Best,
> 
> Łukasz
>