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bug#30312: documentation: misleading EFI partitioning instructions
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#30312: documentation: misleading EFI partitioning instructions |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Jun 2018 15:55:33 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Marius!
Marius Bakke <address@hidden> skribis:
>> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> Finally, it is not clear where the efi partition should be mounted.
>>> Should it be /mnt/boot/efi? If so, should the configuration file
>>> specify “/mnt/boot/efi” as the target? Or should it be “/boot/efi”?
[...]
> I've tried to address the latter issue in <https://bugs.gnu.org/31959>.
>
> I tested it by installing in a virtual machine with the ESP mounted at
> "/mnt/boot/efi", using a Guix snapshot that included that commit. It
> also works on my installed system with the ESP on /boot/efi.
So with #31959 applied, users can mount to /boot/efi or /mnt/boot/efi,
and both will work, right?
I think #31959 can be applied.
> From 28b1aff2f0a78e7736c214880bbcfce1c0135346 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Marius Bakke <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:59:51 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: Use a consistent partitioning scheme.
>
> * doc/guix.texi (Preparing for Installation): Consistently refer to the ESP as
> /dev/sda1; root file system as /dev/sda2; and swap as /dev/sda3.
Go for it!
> I'm not sure how to best resolve the first issue. I suppose we can
> mention that if unsure which GRUB to use, the user can test whether
> "/sys/firmware/efi" exists on the live image.
>
> We could also make it clearer when booting whether the installer is in
> "UEFI" mode or not.
Maybe ‘guix system’ could warn, but I’m not sure how to do that in a
clean way.
Or at the very least we can document it. Perhaps we need to add a “UEFI
vs. BIOS” section in the manual.
Ludo’.