Your message dated Thu, 13 Apr 2023 13:03:56 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#1033913: fixed in partman-efi 99 has caused the Debian Bug report #1033913, regarding partman-auto-lvm: Broken "Guided - use entire disk and set up LVM" in UEFI mode to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: partman-auto-lvm Version: 87 Severity: serious Justification: Maintainer says so TL;DR: Answering “Yes” to the “Force UEFI installation?” makes sure the installer pulls the right bootloader packages, despite misreading the situation. I've discovered this while testing D-I Bookworm RC 1 but also confirmed it already existed in D-I Bookworm Alpha 2, and I'm therefore filing it against the version found in the previous release (and deciding not to block the Bookworm RC 1 release on it). ---- For baremetal tests on laptops requiring various firmware packages, I've been using guided partitioning since forever, with one of these: - Guided - use entire disk - Guided - use entire disk and set up encrypted LVM The former is used most of the time since it's slightly faster (fewer prompts), while the latter is only used once in a while, to make sure a “real” laptop-oriented install works fine (since every laptop should be encrypted in my opinion). Since I had just tested “Guided - use entire disk” in a virtual machine, I decided to pick this instead when switching to the first laptop (Asus Vivobook S14/S15 but that's very likely not a factor): - Guided - use entire disk and set up LVM And… *WOW!* The first surprise is this prompt: Force UEFI installation? This machine's firmware has started the installer in UEFI mode but it looks like there may be existing operating systems already installed using "BIOS compatibility mode". If you continue to install Debian in UEFI mode, it might be difficult to reboot the machine into any BIOS-mode operating systems later. If you wish to install in UEFI mode and don't care about keeping the ability to boot one of the existing systems, you have the option to force that here. If you wish to keep the option to boot an existing operating system, you should choose NOT to force UEFI installation here. which defaults to No. That's very surprising since the only operating system prior to the installation was a Debian system, which was getting entirely erased (due to using the full disk), and was installed in UEFI mode anyway. I went for the default choice, since we expect the installer to make smart suggestions, and unsuspecting users shouldn't have to know better. That means we end up with installing grub-pc instead of grub-efi-amd64 and shim, being prompted where to install GRUB, and of course when it's time to reboot, the UEFI firmware rightfully refuses to boot anything since there's absolutely no signature whatsoever, which isn't a great idea under Secure Boot: Secure Boot Violation Invalid signature detected. Check Secure Boot Policy in Setup. Some additional info: - As mentioned in TL;DR, this can be worked around by answering Yes to “Force UEFI installation?”. - It doesn't seem to be dependent on possible traces of an existing system prior to the installation: Debian installed on the entire disk or with encrypted LVM on the entire disk doesn't seem to make a difference. Starting with a wiped disk (writing ~ 2 GB worth of zeros at the beginning of the disk) doesn't make a difference either. - It very much looks like the intermediary states are slightly different when setting up LVM and when setting up encrypted LVM, and the LVM case case leads to some confusion in partman-efi's /lib/partman/init.d/50efi (which logs to /var/log/partman rather than to /var/log/syslog): “Found 0 ESPs, 3 non-ESPs”. - I'm filing this issue against partman-auto-lvm though, for discoverability purposes. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois ([email protected]) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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--- Begin Message ---Source: partman-efi Source-Version: 99 Done: Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of partman-efi, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive. A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [email protected], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> (supplier of updated partman-efi package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 00:22:53 +0100 Source: partman-efi Architecture: source Version: 99 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <[email protected]> Changed-By: Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> Closes: 834373 1033913 Changes: partman-efi (99) unstable; urgency=medium . * Fix detection of BIOS-bootable systems. Closes: #834373, #1033913 Checksums-Sha1: c6669f6568735b3d7ebb0df2d728d7977f6998dc 1717 partman-efi_99.dsc dbbbdab03485b088b7f77d4e3dac02af68825c61 61736 partman-efi_99.tar.xz 0be5a2e6a02627a730932166b5274c7b3686d800 6079 partman-efi_99_source.buildinfo Checksums-Sha256: 474899b3adc810fea0381266a8550dc3fdaff395ed453bcae27c0c0b7da470bf 1717 partman-efi_99.dsc ae7ab27997eac2b53d3cb1ddb49611e64a1278d50ca7fec6a95f78e0eda6d66e 61736 partman-efi_99.tar.xz 5c662acc5d38e971be64fcf442ab0f9326fd52c8752b9d28d612a7dad8fe15ca 6079 partman-efi_99_source.buildinfo Files: 194a88a5494016558ba2211655a5d70b 1717 debian-installer standard partman-efi_99.dsc b9dbcd93d2cc9435a01d535337d8440c 61736 debian-installer standard partman-efi_99.tar.xz 0e8d0c4db41491f91c7c01ee87e32db8 6079 debian-installer standard partman-efi_99_source.buildinfo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQJFBAEBCAAvFiEEzrtSMB1hfpEDkP4WWHl5VzRCaE4FAmQ3+lsRHDkzc2FtQGRl Ymlhbi5vcmcACgkQWHl5VzRCaE62+xAAnCK8/8OHZZSZWfFU5Opr4y600a5A3hbF aifV41WVXKyAgsZKvt8tnhwK0XGf4vWXiuZUv29KQFRfVLTUA2a3T9vWLg7kQIIW rmpKHy/Z4o+lo86WmsmTkbkWdDS2Aq6u1hK+sGrtjKmTqWlsOYs+WvRzJ0PH9jaC reoYlzYdtCOA5hJpSKNpUA5ilwtOFAFqadF3Sddh+D/sO/ICMPAEn/YP0F/R9EOy UbXjL7vOqQny6c5wqrleWaZdglklOmb9tGau7GdzBudCCdJSfCRQHrVpu5mK3QS2 T8hCeZdu1ue10Sv7+yUJZRU9n8b5XLaG0h4XwSKCI8Ilq3WX+ZbLTd5twSg9SMUV psu6KCEsZOpFip0oOGAEfcnm4MfqOuA29BSQHAwNM0vgZ1Q9jNR/VqK/mR5bA0gN OLLd5PpAzkIZ+WPl5hq2LPVUHzQTE4nM44Uw1NrZBCyHeflw1ybtUqYefEcSAup/ PFKFSUbN559Gayc5aVQ4GqZn7yCWuX74Q5Ibu4kedMEAlOvUBT4p1bH8fmAY2hIf noVo8Aq8InnW41NqnZyH7qCT+WYdPA0SpsjgJrv7FHPnaM6J0DFludi2rP0mzWA4 If21R96v6NIMhwqKfWh5B8nLSiJBR+Bp/THif+y+m0TD4zMVl4/rc3kOFMBnGMtZ 9vScpHpF1Nc= =ldAp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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