From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
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 12:39:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87im4ds2su.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210422143651.fwdrrqmcw225eh23@pelzflorian.localdomain> (pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de's message of "Thu, 22 Apr 2021 16:38:52 +0200")
Hi Florian,
(Cc: Mathieu.)
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> skribis:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 03:28:39PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> There’s no EFI (vfat) partition here. Is it an EFI machine?
>>
>> Is /boot/efi mounted when you boot the installation image?
>
> No because there is no EFI partition. If I create one and restart the
> installer, then it is *not* mounted either, only /mnt/boot/efi later
> during the install. (I believe since the installer is installed as on
> an external medium, it does not need an EFI partition.)
>
> I had booted the install image via UEFI boot and had expected auto
> partitioning and the default configuration to do the right thing.
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?
I’m not entirely sure how it decides between GPT and DOS, though;
Mathieu?
We should add UEFI installation tests using OVMF.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-23 10:40 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 [this message]
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)
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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