Bug#925414: debian-installer: fails to install on xfs

[Cyril Brulebois]

Package: debian-installer
Severity: important

[grub2 maintainers in copy.]

This is with a daily from 2019-03-24 but I'm not sure this is due to
some kernel module mismatch between d-i and the installed system…

Installing with default ext4, with or without encrypted LVM works just
fine, but grub fails when trying to install on plain xfs:

    Mar 24 17:35:57 grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda'
    Mar 24 17:35:57 grub-installer: info: grub-install does not support --no-floppy
    Mar 24 17:35:57 grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install  --force "/dev/sda"
    Mar 24 17:35:57 grub-installer: Installing for i386-pc platform.
    Mar 24 17:35:58 grub-installer: grub-install: error:
    Mar 24 17:35:58 grub-installer:
    Mar 24 17:35:58 grub-installer: unknown filesystem
    Mar 24 17:35:58 grub-installer: .
    Mar 24 17:35:58 grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install  --force "/dev/sda"' failed.

dmesg & syslog attached.


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (kibi at debian.org)            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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