On Sat, 05 Apr 2025 17:25:08 +0300 =?utf-8?q?Martin-=C3=89ric_Racine?= <martin-eric.rac...@iki.fi> wrote: > Package: debian-installer > Severity: important > X-Debbugs-Cc: martin-eric.rac...@iki.fi > > I recently installed my first UEFI amd64 host. I used debian-installer to > configure a brtfs root, which used the default @rootfs volume name. > > Contrary to what some people claim, UEFI is anything BUT "modern and robust" > so I have had to use d-i's rescue mode off a USB stick or a regular basis. > The USB stick currently contains: > > Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) amd64 - netboot mini.iso 20230607+deb12u9 > > The rescue operation currently involves typing a complicated series of > commands on the console, because d-i seemingly cannot work with btrfs volume > names. > > IMHO, at the very least, the menu to select the partition to mount should > show the output of 'lsblk -f'. > > Better yet, the rescue mode should be able to find the root and EFI > partitions by itself and offer to mount them. > > A solution in-between could involve suggesting a disk among those found to > have both an EFI partition AND a Linux partition whose label is '/' and mount > these e.g. /dev/sda has both an EFI partition and a Linux partition labelled > '/', would you like to mount them?
That should obviously be: a disk containing both an EFI partition AND a Linux partition with a filesystem whose label is '/' (and, if btrfs, a subvolume named @rootfs). Martin-Éric
