On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 11:19:02AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 04:03:06PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 06:43:27PM +0300, Andrey Jr. Melnikov wrote: >> >Package: debian-installer >> >Severity: important >> >Tags: d-i >> > >> > >> >Installation procedure of grub2 dont't transform root= entry from /dev/sd?? >> >to UUID notation. >> >This lead to unbootable system after install. >> >> Hmmm. It normally does this reliably in my experience. What version of >> d-i did you use, and did you follow through the menus as normal? Is >> there anything special about your setup? > >Well the log indicates the use of a GPT partition table with BIOS boot >and not creating the GPT bios boot partition. So at least that qualifies >as not normal. > >Perhaps that is an indication that the system is supposed to be EFI >booted but somehow the installer was booted in the wrong mode.
I'd still expect the installer to DTRT with UUIDs in that case, though. I'm more thinking of a non-standard bootup / custom kernel or similar... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "I used to be the first kid on the block wanting a cranial implant, now I want to be the first with a cranial firewall. " -- Charlie Stross