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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: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 18:34:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210425163412.duj4t4ind5r5tv4x@pelzflorian.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eeeyv49v.fsf@gnu.org>

On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 04:15:56PM +0200, Mathieu Othacehe wrote:
> Finally, grub-efi fails because there's no /boot/efi mount point.
> 
> This problem can then occur for two reasons:
> 
> 1. The user is booting the installation image with UEFI support, using
>   an empty installation device, choosing auto-partition and msdos as
>   disk type.
> 
> 2. The user is booting the installation image with UEFI support, using
>   an already msdos formatted installation device and choosing
>   auto-partition.
> 
> I think we could solve 1. easily, by forcing the GPT layout. Solving
> 2. is a bit trickier.

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>.

Regards,
Florian




  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-25 16:35 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) [this message]
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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