From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
Cc: 47889@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47889: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 13:17:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210426111700.esxn4cfwrfflez5l@pelzflorian.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878s56uw3c.fsf@gnu.org>
On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 07:12:39PM +0200, Mathieu Othacehe wrote:
>
> Hello Florian,
>
> > 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.
You are right of course; the old ESP may contain boot information for
other disks or network boot or whatever.
> 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.
Thank you for this patch!! It installs EFI on msdos layout
successfully on my Beebox PC. That said, it could force GPT on msdos
layouts as well if they lack an ESP. But I’m already happy.
Regards,
Florian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-26 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-19 9:29 bug#47889: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-04-19 11:01 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-04-19 17:27 ` Leo Famulari
2021-04-19 20:19 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-04-22 13:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-22 14:38 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-04-23 10:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-23 11:12 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-04-24 3:24 ` Bengt Richter
2021-04-24 9:31 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-04-25 14:15 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2021-04-25 16:34 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-04-25 17:12 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2021-04-26 11:17 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) [this message]
2021-04-26 15:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-26 16:37 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2021-04-27 16:48 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2021-04-28 13:54 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2021-04-29 7:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
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