From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>, 47889@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47889: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2021 13:12:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210423111211.jauxzqx6uqh5c76e@pelzflorian.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87im4ds2su.fsf@gnu.org>
On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 12:39:13PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> The installer determines whether it’s doing a UEFI installation like so:
>
> (define (efi-installation?)
> "Return #t if an EFI installation should be performed, #f otherwise."
> (file-exists? "/sys/firmware/efi"))
>
> It uses that to determine whether to create an EFI System Partition
> (ESP) and whether to use ‘grub-efi-bootloader’.
>
> Did it create an ESP in your case?
No, not on a DOS layout, only on GPT layout. I think DOS should not
be allowed in auto partitioning (which would be the safer option) or
an ESP should be created on DOS as well.
Regards,
Florian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-23 11:15 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) [this message]
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)
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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