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From: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
To: "Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas" <rosen644835@gmail.com>
Cc: Brendan Tildesley <mail@brendan.scot>, 44027@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44027: [PATCH] installer: Create bios_grub partition when it is needed.
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 19:03:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87imb7zctc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mu0jpm5b.fsf@gmail.com> ("Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas"'s message of "Sun, 18 Oct 2020 17:52:00 +0200")


Hello Miguel & Brendan,

> AFAIU from the code, the first partition should not be created by the
> installer but it won't be removed if it was found on the disk
> beforehand.  Tomorrow I'll give a try at the full installation process,
> I must have overlooked something if it still being created in that
> case...

Thanks for your help on this topic! Brendan is probably using a GPT
partitionned disk on a non-UEFI compatible machine. Hence, as you
noticed, the installer does not create a bios_grub partition.

This is a problem as this partition is necessary for GRUB and I think
that your patch is fixing the problem. The "auto-partition!" procedure
is also leaving a probably pre-existing ESP partition, but I don't
really understand how it appeared in the first place.

Brendan, did you use "manual partitioning" to create an ESP partition?

Thanks,

Mathieu




  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-18 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-16  8:03 bug#44027: 1.2-29a2eb3 Installer fails at final stage installing GRUB Brendan Tildesley
2020-10-16 14:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-16 22:55   ` Brett Gilio
2020-10-17 13:09     ` bug#44027: [PATCH] installer: Create bios_grub partition when it is needed Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
2020-10-18  2:02       ` Brendan Tildesley
2020-10-18  4:07       ` Brendan Tildesley
2020-10-18 15:52         ` Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
2020-10-18 17:03           ` Mathieu Othacehe [this message]
2020-10-19  5:57             ` Brendan Tildesley
2020-10-19 10:48               ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-10-19 13:21                 ` Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
2020-10-19 15:51                   ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-10-19 19:59                     ` Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
2020-10-20  5:33               ` Bengt Richter

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