From: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
To: Brendan Tildesley <mail@brendan.scot>
Cc: "Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas" <rosen644835@gmail.com>,
44027@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44027: [PATCH] installer: Create bios_grub partition when it is needed.
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 12:48:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pn5emqzc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <da17578a-e817-8cb1-e49d-ef26a72b371a@brendan.scot> (Brendan Tildesley's message of "Mon, 19 Oct 2020 16:57:49 +1100")
Hello Brendan,
> I feel the installer should not care what was on the drive to begin with, it
> should just
> format the drive how it sees fit. Why should the existing contents of the
> drive
> affect the outcome when we are reformatting everything anyway?
That's the case except for the ESP partition that is preserved by the
installer because it could contain vendor / operating system specific
files that should not be wiped.
Mathieu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-19 10:56 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
2020-10-19 5:57 ` Brendan Tildesley
2020-10-19 10:48 ` Mathieu Othacehe [this message]
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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