Re: locally built netboot image errors out at partman stage

Cyril Brulebois <[email protected]> Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:23:48 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.boot
Organization	Debian
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi,

Marc Haber <[email protected]> (2026-07-15):
> when I boot a qemu machine from
> https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/netboot/mini.iso, everything
> is fine. I can proceed until partman comes up (I abort then, partman is what
> interests me).
> 
> When I check out
> https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer.git, do make
> reallyclean, make build_netboot and boot from that mini.iso, at the stage
> where partman is supposed to come up, I get a red screen saying that
> partitioning disks failed.

Since you're not mentioning switching branch or anything, I'm assuming
you're working from the master branch, and building within unstable
(e.g. a devel-oriented schroot environment).

Starting from a clean Git checkout (meaning reallyclean is a no-op),
the build_netboot target gives me a build/dest/netboot/mini.iso that
lets me start and finish partman successfully.

> The log then says:
> Jul 15 09:03:01 main-menu[259]: INFO: Menu item 'partman-base' selected
> Jul 15 09:03:01 main-menu[259]: WARNING **: Deep recursion configuring package partman-base (dep loop?)
> Jul 15 09:03:01 main-menu[259]: WARNING **: Menu item 'partman-base' failed.
> 
> Why does my image behave differently? Any ideas what might be going
> wrong here?

Maybe something to do with the build environment we have no information
about.


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois ([email protected])            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

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