From: Brendan Tildesley <mail@brendan.scot>
To: "Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas" <rosen644835@gmail.com>,
"Brett Gilio" <brettg@gnu.org>
Cc: othacehe@gnu.org, 44027@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44027: [PATCH] installer: Create bios_grub partition when it is needed.
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 13:02:20 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <418d612d-ef7c-ea58-2df2-80e4bb73ed4b@brendan.scot> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pn5hq9rs.fsf_-_@gmail.com>
On 17/10/20 11:09 pm, Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Brett Gilio <brettg@gnu.org> writes:
>> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>>> Shouldn’t it create a “legacy” partition table rather than GPT since
>>> we’re on an old, non-UEFI platform?
>> That is my thinking as well, it should create a legacy MBR table.
> IMHO the old format should be avoided completely when possible. Why
> should we enforce it?
>
> I think this problem involves having a previous ESP partition on the
> disk (at least identified as such by parted), because auto-partition!
> currently checks that before checking if the booted system has EFI
> support. When that's the case, it doesn't create the needed bios_grub
> partition that might have been removed previously.
>
> The attached patch solves that. What do you think?
>
> Happy hacking,
> Miguel
I'm about to give it a test run. Unrelated to the patch, but, I'm
building the installer (gnu/system/install.scm) on latest master and I
get the following warnings/errors, although it doesn't stop the build
from completing. is it a bug?
https://paste.debian.net/plain/1167398
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-18 2:03 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 [this message]
2020-10-18 4:07 ` Brendan Tildesley
2020-10-18 15:52 ` Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
2020-10-18 17:03 ` Mathieu Othacehe
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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