it seems the issue is the XFS root partition. Thought XFS was support by both Debian and GRUB2?
KVM guest, qcow2 file, 50GB EFI partiton(1) 300MB ROOT: 53,4GB, ext4 OK! EFI partiton(1) 37MB ROOT: 53,5GB, ext4 OK EFI partiton(1) 37MB ROOT: 10GB ok EFI: 37MB ROOT: 10GB, XFS fail On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 11:50 AM Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> wrote: > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > > Hello, > > It is hard to understand what issue exactly you had, so we can only try > to guess... > > Brian Wengel, le dim. 17 mars 2019 01:52:17 +0100, a ecrit: > > I hope the installer could be a little more flexible in regards to EFI > > partition, > [...] > > Why put a size limit which is way larger than the technical limit? > > Which size limit are you talking about? Which error message do you > get exactly, at which point of the installation? Please never assume > anything is obvious in a bug report. > > The one I can find in partman-efi, the source code about EFI partitions, is > > “ > "EFI System Partitions on this architecture cannot be created with a size " > "less than 35 MB. Please make the EFI System Partition larger." > ” > > which corresponds to > > # Experimentally-verified minimum size for a FAT32 filesystem created using > # libparted. > > i.e. a technical limitation. > > I can not find anything in grub-installer. Perhaps the error message you > are mentioning actually comes from grub, but without knowing the exact > error message you got, it's very hard to tell. > > > But the installer absolutely want a very big partition. > > How big did you see it require? > > > There might be a technical reason, but I assume is just a matter of > opinion, > > right? > > By default, assume technical reason, not opinion. Perhaps it's just a > bug in computing sizes. But without more information of the case you > encountered, it's hard to determine what went wrong, so we need more > information. > > Samuel >
