I can concur about the installer. I tried to install Debian 12 something like 7 times on a laptop and it would always fail installing grub. The error message was quite generic and it took a whole lot of googling and finding how to get a proper error message that I was able to find out the following:
When setting up an encrypted LVM, you must also dedicate an unencrypted /boot partition for it to work. The installer never warned me I was partitioning wrong. I thought only an EFI partition was needed.
I think the solution for the Debian installer would be to give actual errors instead of “error!”. Switching ttys reveal the actual error, but it’s not intuitive at all.
I can concur about the installer. I tried to install Debian 12 something like 7 times on a laptop and it would always fail installing grub. The error message was quite generic and it took a whole lot of googling and finding how to get a proper error message that I was able to find out the following:
When setting up an encrypted LVM, you must also dedicate an unencrypted /boot partition for it to work. The installer never warned me I was partitioning wrong. I thought only an EFI partition was needed.
I think the solution for the Debian installer would be to give actual errors instead of “error!”. Switching ttys reveal the actual error, but it’s not intuitive at all.