On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 14:24:02 +0530 Mohammed Sadiq <sa...@sadiqpk.org> wrote: > Package: debian-installer > Severity: important > > Debian testing installation (From DVD-1) fails at Partitioning: > > The following error is reported: > > The attempt to mount a file system with type vfat in SCSI1(0, 0, 0), partition #2 (sda) at /boot/efi failed. > > You may resume partitioning from the partitioning menu. > Do you want to resume partitioning? > <Go Back> <Yes> <No> > > (Above log may contain typos, sorry.) > > If I select <No> Installer yells at me saying "An installation step failed...." and Aborts. > > > When I try to mount /dev/sda2 manually (mount /dev/sda2 /mnt). It says "... failed. Invalid argument". > /dev/sda2 is shown as 'EFI System Partition' in Partition lists of the installer. > > So probably the vfat module for mount is missing (or not loaded by default) in installer, which should be. > > The system is booted with EFI mode enabled (and secure boot disabled). > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: stretch/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > >
Hello, I faced the same problem yesterday. In addition to what Mohammed mentioned, I also saw messages about the installer trying to use `stat` which is not available. Maybe this helps. Stephan
