Package: debian-installer Version: stretch alpha 4 Severity: important Tags: d-i
Dear Maintainer, I have a new System76 Oryx Pro laptop using efi boot. Ubuntu installs successfully but I can't get debian to install using encrypted LVM. The laptop has an nvme device which requires efi boot so I can't just disable it. Here are my repro steps: 1. Boot using netinst (tried both stable and testing, stable doesn't work at all I think due to efi?) 2. Performed normal install (tried both text and gui) 3. Included proprietary firmware for wifi from usb key when prompted 4. selected encrypted LVM with separate home partition, changed root partition to 20GB and made some other lvm adjustments 5. proceeded to install base system successfully 6. when it comes time to install grub, it fails. no better error message provided, nothing in /var/logs either The laptop came with working ubuntu on it, and I was able to boot from an ubuntu live CD. I was able to chroot into the installed system from here and everything looked right, but I still haven't figured out the right incantation of grub to get it to install so it will unlock my encrypted drive (right now, it does boot off the nvme device but drops me to a grub prompt). Short of becoming a grub wizard, the best way to get my system the way I want it is probaly to fix the installer =| if there is anything I can do to provide extra information, please do not hesitate to contact me. I also hang out on freenode as cmyers. Thanks! -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.1.5-x86_64-linode61 (SMP w/3 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
