On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 05:57:37AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > I've got a new server and am currently fighting with the Debian 10 > installer (build 20190702) in my attempts to get it up and running. > After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, I managed to get it to stop > complaining about being unble to mount /boot/efi and complete the > "Partition disks" step successfully, but now I'm completely stuck on the > "Install GRUB" step. > > The GUI installer shows the error: > > Unable to install GRUB in dummy > Executing 'grub-install dummy' failed. > > Checking the syslog output on virtual console 4 shows a bunch of > os-prober activity (as expected), then finally: > > Installing for x64_64-efi platform. > grub-install: error: failed to get canonical path of `/dev/nvme0n1p1`. > error: Running 'grub-install --force "dummy"' failed.
Check the settings for the disk in BIOS equivalent - I had lots of problems with an HP because I'd inadvertently told the HP software to take over partitioning of the disks and put them into an array. Andy C.