https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438390

            Bug ID: 438390
           Summary: Regression: Installation fails on BTRFS
           Product: neon
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Neon Packages
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: Live/Install images
          Assignee: neon-b...@kde.org
          Reporter: bugs.kde....@tenkate.net
                CC: j...@jriddell.org, neon-b...@kde.org, sit...@kde.org
  Target Milestone: ---

SUMMARY
As per
https://www.reddit.com/r/kdeneon/comments/nw6y94/neon_installation_clusterf/
 - The Calamares installer does not seem to work with BTRFS on the latest Neon
ISOs.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Run installer on Neon Live ISO
2. When reaching 'Partitions', choose 'Manual partitioning'
3. Select an existing partition (though this might be caused with a new
partition as well), click 'Edit'
4. Click 'Format'
5. Choose BTRFS as filesystem
6. Select '/' as mount point and click 'OK'
7. Select your EFI partition, click 'Edit', keep the content and set
'/boot/efi' as mount point, flags 'boot'.
8. Continue installation

OBSERVED RESULT

When Grub is being configured / installed, I get this error:

--------8<------------
Installation Failed

Boost.Python error in job "bootloader"

Command 'grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi
--bootloader-id=neon --force' returned non-zero status exit 1.

Installing for x86_64-efi platform.

grub-install: error: cannot find a device for /boot/grub (is /dev mounted?).

Traceback:

File "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/calamares/modules/bootloader/main.py, line 477,
in run prepare_bootloader(fw_type)

File "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/calamares/modules/bootloader/main.py, line 449,
in prepare_bootloader install(efi_directory, fw_type)

File "<string>, line 5, in <module>
--------8<------------

Also, when mounting the target BTRFS partition, it is empty. Instead, the
system appears to be 'installed' into /tmp.

EXPECTED RESULT

The Neon installer should work fine with BTRFS (and it has in the past, so this
is a regression!)

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Neon Live USB
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.82.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I used neon-user-20210527-0944.iso, but previous versions apparently have this
regression as well. As per the comments on the linked Reddit thread, 'older'
images do not seem to have this issue, but I don't know which version(s)
exactly.

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