Thanks for documenting.

I'm guessing this would fail to install on machines with 32-bit uefi, like
T100TA.

Ubuntu fails to install on those too, but debian-multiarch installer works.



On Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 2:03 PM Seth Grover <seth.d.gro...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Just for completeness, here is the last piece of my puzzle:
>
> Although my changes had the BIOS installer working correctly, the EFI
> installer would fail to install grub. What I was needing was to create
> grub.list.binary in config/package-lists:
>
> grub-pc-bin
> grub-efi-amd64-bin
> grub-efi-amd64
>
> With a .list.binary suffix, it allows the packages to be present in the
> deb pool on the installer medium if it NEEDS to be installed, but not
> install it in all cases (like BIOS when it breaks things).
>
> Now my ISO template (https://github.com/mmguero/deblive_blank) creates an
> installer that works for both EFI and BIOS.
>
> -SG
> --
> Seth Grover
>
>

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