2018-02-01 10:13 GMT+01:00 Gábor Boskovits <[email protected]>: > 2018-01-31 20:01 GMT+01:00 Ricardo Wurmus <[email protected]>: > >> The manual section “Preparing for Installation: Disk Partitioning” says >> this: >> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> If your disk uses the GUID Partition Table (GPT) format and you plan >> to install BIOS-based GRUB (which is the default), make sure a BIOS Boot >> Partition is available (*note (grub)BIOS installation::). >> >> If you instead wish to use EFI-based GRUB, a FAT32 “EFI System >> Partition” (ESP) is required. This partition should be mounted at >> ‘/boot/efi’ and must have the ‘esp’ flag set. E.g., for ‘parted’: >> >> parted /dev/sda set 1 esp on >> >> Once you are done partitioning the target hard disk drive, you have >> to create a file system on the relevant partition(s)(1). For the ESP, >> if you have one and assuming it is ‘/dev/sda2’, run: >> >> mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda2 >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- >> >> First, this sounds like it’s up to the user to pick either EFI-based >> GRUB or BIOS-based GRUB. It is not clear that this is determined by >> whether the machine has a {BIOS, EFI in legacy mode} or EFI. It’s >> really not much of a choice. >> >> Second, the “parted” command operates on the first partition (“1”), yet >> for the second command the second partition (“/dev/sda2”) is used. It’s >> better to be consistent here, i.e. to change “set 1 esp on” to “set 2 >> esp on” and to state that this would modify “/dev/sda2”. >> >> Finally, it is not clear where the efi partition should be mounted. >> Should it be /mnt/boot/efi? If so, should the configuration file >> specify “/mnt/boot/efi” as the target? Or should it be “/boot/efi”? >> >> An example would be useful here. >> >> I agree an example would be nice. > I will have a look at this when I have time. > I guess I had done something similar. > > I've just looked around and found that we have ovmf in our repository. It would be nice if we could create a system test and use an ovmf qemu to test installation. Once we have that we could get the documentation consistent with a working testcase. WDYT?
> > >> -- >> Ricardo >> >> >> >> >
