- Package:
- grub-efi-amd64
- Source:
- grub2
- Description:
- GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (EFI-AMD64 version)
- Submitter:
- Julian GroÃ
- Date:
- 2021-07-11 00:48:02 UTC
- Severity:
- normal
Boot method: SD-card via USB 2.0 cardreader Image version: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-10.10.0-amd64-netinst.iso Date: 10th July 2021 10:00 Machine: MSI B75MA-P45 Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU Memory: 12288 MB 1333 MHz Partitions: See added logs. Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn): Probably see added logs as well. Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [O] Detect network card: [O] Configure network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Install base system: [O] Clock/timezone setup: [O] User/password setup: [O] Install tasks: [O] Install boot loader: [E] Overall install: [E] Comments/Problems: Installation fail with: "Unable to install GRUB in dummy Executing 'grub-install dummy' failed. This is a fatal error." My goal was to install Debian on a BTRFS partition with compression enabled. The wiki mentioned some limitations with booting BTRFS with compression (thought only on RAID 1), so I made a separate /boot partition.
I just tried installing without changing the default partition table and just telling the installer to use the whole disk. Also fails on installing grub, but this time with a slightly different error message. See the attached logs.
Hi Julian, piece is: Jul 10 09:41:19 in-target: grub-install: Warnung: Cannot read EFI Boot* variables.^M Jul 10 09:41:19 in-target: grub-install: Warnung: read_file: could not read from file: Eingabe-/Ausgabefehler.^M Jul 10 09:41:19 in-target: grub-install: Warnung: vars_get_variable: read_file(/sys/firmware/efi/vars/Boot0007-8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c/raw_var) failed: Eingabe-/Ausgabefehler.^M Jul 10 09:41:19 in-target: grub-install: Warnung: efi_get_variable: ops->get_variable failed: Eingabe-/Ausgabefehler.^M Jul 10 09:41:19 in-target: grub-install: Fehler: failed to register the EFI boot entry: Eingabe-/Ausgabefehler.^M Jul 10 09:41:19 in-target: Failed: grub-install --target=x86_64-efi ^M This is odd behaviour - your system identified OK as UEFI earlier, but the grub-install command is failing to even *read* the UEFI boot variables. I've never seen that happen before. I'm hoping that our main Grub maintainer Colin can follow this a little further...