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bug#47889: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical pa
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#47889: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Apr 2021 17:53:54 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Mathieu,
Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org> skribis:
>> Can you force GPT also in 2.? All disk partitions get removed anyway.
>> Arch wiki says MSDOS layout does not work on all EFI systems
>> <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFI_system_partition#Create_the_partition>.
>
> Well I'm not sure, if someone has an MSDOS partition table with an ESP
> partition it wouldn't be a good idea to wipe it.
>
> The attached patch forces GPT if there's no partition table, and will
> preserve/create an ESP partition on an MSDOS/EFI setup. I'm testing it
> on various machines, seems to work fine.
The patch looks reasonable to me, thanks a lot!
(It’s also reasonable to ignore ESP-on-MSDOS IMO.)
Ludo’.
- bug#47889: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk, (continued)
- bug#47889: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk, Ludovic Courtès, 2021/04/22
- bug#47889: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2021/04/22
- bug#47889: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk, Mathieu Othacehe, 2021/04/25
- bug#47889: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2021/04/25
- bug#47889: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk, Mathieu Othacehe, 2021/04/25
- bug#47889: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2021/04/26
- bug#47889: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk,
Ludovic Courtès <=
- bug#47889: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk, Mathieu Othacehe, 2021/04/26
- bug#47889: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk, Mathieu Othacehe, 2021/04/27
- bug#47889: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk, Mathieu Othacehe, 2021/04/28
- bug#47889: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk, Ludovic Courtès, 2021/04/29