Bug#806164: installation-reports: jessie install on dell xps 13 9350 (grub-installer issues)

So, I have some bad news - the issue may not be completely fixed. Or, I might have missed something. I tried to build an iso by following the steps to check out the debian-install stuff[1] but found that the build_all target did not make the netinst ISO as I expected. I next found some

Bug#806164: installation-reports: jessie install on dell xps 13 9350 (grub-installer issues)

I got my system working. I repeated the chroot experiment from above, confirmed that this time the initrd contained cryptsetup and the other necessary tools (it did), and I was able to then run the grub installer. Since in the past when I did this it didn't work, I was trying to think of

Bug#806164: installation-reports: jessie install on dell xps 13 9350 (grub-installer issues)

Carl Myers (2015-12-02): > Is there a nightly ISO build I can use, or do I have to build my own? Not > sure how to confirm the fix is in any given ISO I might download... I think you'd need to wait for a weekly, which means monday; that's because grub-installer is not

Bug#806164: installation-reports: jessie install on dell xps 13 9350 (grub-installer issues)

Brulebois wrote: > Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 12:52:22 +0100 > From: Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> > To: Carl Myers <cmy...@cmyers.org> > Cc: Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org>, 806...@bugs.debian.org, > 806...@bugs.debian.org > Subject: Re: Bug#806164: installation

Bug#806164: installation-reports: jessie install on dell xps 13 9350 (grub-installer issues)

Is there a nightly ISO build I can use, or do I have to build my own? Not sure how to confirm the fix is in any given ISO I might download... In case there isn't, I'm reading the wiki page about simple-cdd and building a custom debian installer, and looking into how to produce my own install CD

Bug#806164: installation-reports: jessie install on dell xps 13 9350 (grub-installer issues)

Julien Cristau (2015-11-28): > Control: reassign -1 grub-installer 1.117 > Control: severity -1 important > Control: retitle -1 grub-installer: too much hardcoding of device names, > fails with /dev/nvme* > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 00:06:57 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: >

Bug#806849: Bug#806164: installation-reports: jessie install on dell xps 13 9350 (grub-installer issues)

On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 01:00:32AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > sid/stretch should be behaving better since 1.122 was supposed to > introduce support for NVMe devices, but I botched it. 1.128 will > hopefully fix this, but confirmations are welcome: > >

Bug#806164: installation-reports: jessie install on dell xps 13 9350 (grub-installer issues)

Control: reassign -1 grub-installer 1.117 Control: severity -1 important Control: retitle -1 grub-installer: too much hardcoding of device names, fails with /dev/nvme* On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 00:06:57 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > Installation went fine (well, had to stay close to the screen

Bug#806164: installation-reports: jessie install on dell xps 13 9350 (grub-installer issues)

Package: installation-reports Boot method: USB Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/current/amd64/iso-cd/firmware-8.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso Date: November 24, 2015 Machine: Dell XPS 13 9350 Partitions: fdisk -l Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 477 GiB,