Hey, Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> (2019-03-24): > On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 06:59:31PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > This is with a daily from 2019-03-24 but I'm not sure this is due to > > some kernel module mismatch between d-i and the installed system… > > For future reference, kernel module mismatches can't cause this type > of error. The relevant bit of GRUB's filesystem handling runs in > userspace, and only needs access to the block device.
Sure, it's just a common enough gotcha that's a #1 topic on my list to check before doing anything else; I didn't mean to imply this was particularly relevant in this specific context. Sorry for the incomplete brain dump… > > Installing with default ext4, with or without encrypted LVM works just > > fine, but grub fails when trying to install on plain xfs: > > > > Mar 24 17:35:57 grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda' > > Mar 24 17:35:57 grub-installer: info: grub-install does not support > > --no-floppy > > Mar 24 17:35:57 grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target > > grub-install --force "/dev/sda" > > Mar 24 17:35:57 grub-installer: Installing for i386-pc platform. > > Mar 24 17:35:58 grub-installer: grub-install: error: > > Mar 24 17:35:58 grub-installer: > > Mar 24 17:35:58 grub-installer: unknown filesystem > > Mar 24 17:35:58 grub-installer: . > > Mar 24 17:35:58 grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install --force > > "/dev/sda"' failed. > > The syslog shows that 2.02+dfsg1-13 was installed. I already fixed this > in 2.02+dfsg1-14 - it's just not in testing yet: > > grub2 (2.02+dfsg1-14) unstable; urgency=medium > > * Make signed packages depend on a matching version of grub-common, in an > attempt to prevent incorrect testing migrations (closes: #924814). > * Cherry-pick from upstream: > - xfs: Accept filesystem with sparse inodes (closes: #924760). > * Minimise writes to EFI variable storage (closes: #891434). > > -- Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> Sat, 23 Mar 2019 09:47:10 +0000 OK, great. Sorry for the noise; I didn't report it when I first encountered it a couple of weeks ago and lost track; didn't want to do that again, so I filed it right away before hoping into a train. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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