FAI aborting installation on nvme device

Thoralf Schulze <[email protected]> Wed, 6 Nov 2024 18:06:00 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.fai
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi there -

while trying to install Debian on a Dell Latitude 7440, FAI aborts with 
"Error in task partition. Code: 710".

format.log on the target host states "No disks defined in $disklist" on 
the first line, which is corroborated by "disklist=" in variables.log . 
The FAI configuration is pretty standard, with only slight changes to 
disk_config.

The block device on the target host - which is a nvme disk - is being 
recognised by the kernel, /proc/partitions and lsblk list existing 
partitions. According to dmesg, these partitions are being picked up 
rather early in the boot process, so missing / delayed loaded kernel 
modules don't seem to cause the issue.

I am quoting relevant lines from fai.log below - please let me know if 
there is anything I can do to further debug this issue.

Thank you very much & with kind regards,
Thoralf.

fai.log:

[…]
Calling task_action
FAI_ACTION: install
Performing FAI installation. All data may be overwritten!

Calling task_install
Calling task_partition
No disks defined in $disklist
Starting setup-storage 3.0
Using config file: /var/lib/fai/config/disk_config/FAIBASE_EFI
This system does not have a physical disk 1

This is your disk_config file:
# example of new config file for setup-storage
#
# p=<partlabel> <mountpoint> <size>   <fs type> <mount options> <misc 
options>

# you may want to add "-O ^metadata_csum_seed" to createopts if the target
# system is older than bullseye. See #866603, #1031415, #1031416 for 
more info.

disk_config disk1 disklabel:gpt bootable:1 fstabkey:uuid

p=efi  /boot/efi 512M  vfat  rw
p=root /      50G   ext4  rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro
p=     swap   8G    swap  sw
p=home /home  100-  ext4  rw,noatime,nosuid,nodev createopts="-L home -m 
1" tuneopts="-c 0 -i 0"

Error in task partition. Code: 710
Traceback: task_error task_partition task task_install task task_action 
task main
Source hook: savelog.LAST.sh
ERRORS found in log files. See /tmp/fai/error.log
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