D-Installer: manual testing on bare metal
Hi! I did some manual testing of the live ALP ISO image [1] on real hardware. I am using a Dell XPS 13 laptop. I have tried the 4 possible variants the current storage proposal admits: a) Installing over partitions b) Installing over encrypted partitions c) Installing over LVM volumes d) Installing over encrypted LVM volumes The installation was successful for all them, but I saw some details. With the option b) the web UI gets stuck when there are 47 remaining packages to install. I tried it twice with the same result. Anyway, the installation actually finishes and the system boots. And with option d), the encryption password is requested twice (by grub and kernel). I think this is expected because, as far as I know, the patched grub in ALP only supports the encrypted partitions scenario. I will do more testing with encrypted partitions, because in some test the system did not boot. Regards, Iván [1] https://build.opensuse.org/package/binaries/YaST:Head:D-Installer/d-installe... -- José Iván López González YaST Team at SUSE LINUX GmbH IRC: jilopez
On 12/8/22 22:10, José Iván López González wrote:
Hi!
[...] I have tried the 4 possible variants the current storage proposal admits:
a) Installing over partitions b) Installing over encrypted partitions c) Installing over LVM volumes d) Installing over encrypted LVM volumes
[...] And with option d), the encryption password is requested twice (by grub and kernel). I think this is expected because, as far as I know, the patched grub in ALP only supports the encrypted partitions scenario.
I think we should open a bug with this for our grub2 package so mchang (and maybe okir) can take a look. I don't know how hard would be to improve the Grub2 patch so it takes into account the case of encrypted PVs and then "/" as an LV on top. That's a very common approach among our users, since it's the way YaST has been proposing for decades. Cheers. -- Ancor González Sosa YaST Team at SUSE Software Solutions
On 12/12/22 11:01, Ancor Gonzalez Sosa wrote:
I think we should open a bug with this for our grub2 package so mchang (and maybe okir) can take a look. I don't know how hard would be to improve the Grub2 patch so it takes into account the case of encrypted PVs and then "/" as an LV on top. That's a very common approach among our users, since it's the way YaST has been proposing for decades.
Done https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1206333. Thanks! -- José Iván López González YaST Team at SUSE LINUX GmbH IRC: jilopez
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