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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




  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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