Package: debian-installer
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: veltf...@gmail.com
Dear Maintainer,
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* What led up to the situation?
I installed Debian with "GNU/Linux trixie-DI-alpha1 _Trixie_ - Official
Alpha amd64 NETINST with firmware 20241230-11:26" using the luks
encrypted full disk partition scheme. It installed but the installer
used an efi partition from another disk where there was another Debian
installation. When I moved the disk to its real home and tried to boot
the computer looked at me like a dog who was just shown a card trick, it
couldn't boot. I did the luks-encrypted full disk trixie installation
to /dev/sdb.
sda 476.9G
├─sda1 Ra9D0mUuId-C2D0 vfat 258.4M
sdb 223.6G
├─sdb1 73De-s0mE8therUuId vfat 960M
/boot/efi
/etc/fstab line before being fixed:
UUID=Ra9D0mUuId-C2D0 /boot/efi vfat umask=0077 0 1
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
I had to boot a computer from a working Linux installation, decrypt the
encrypted partition, then mount the proper partitions at /mountpoint,
/mountpoint/boot and /mountpoint/boot/efi, then chroot to the system,
edit the fstab to point to the efi partition on the OS disk, then
reinstall grub with "grub-install /dev/sdb" and run update-grub before I could
get the new installation to boot on its own.
* What was the outcome of this action?
The system booted normally after I futzed around with it, but a less
experienced user would have given up.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
I expected the installer to choose the efi partition on the target
disk that the installer had just created, not some other random disk's efi
partition.
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.12.6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
