On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 02:34:47PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
>Hi,
>
><vincent.mcint...@csiro.au> wrote:
>> Package: installation-guide
>> Version: 20180930
>> Severity: wishlist
>> Tags: patch
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> recently I was learning about presseding UEFI installs and
>> I think the install guide could use a small addition to make
>> that journey easier. I also sent a patch to partman-auto-recipe.txt
>> but I am sure the readership of that is much less than the d-i manual.
>
>I am unable to proof the patch correct or not, could anyone comment on that?
All I can say is It Works For Us, on plenty of amd64 installs
over the last year. The patch has evolved a little since then,
inline below. Please let me know if you'd rather a MR.
Vince
diff --git a/en/appendix/preseed.xml b/en/appendix/preseed.xml
index d7570d6b3..817749bb9 100644
--- a/en/appendix/preseed.xml
+++ b/en/appendix/preseed.xml
@@ -1206,6 +1211,20 @@ d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select atomic
# system labels, volume group names and which physical devices to include
# in a volume group.
+## Partitioning for EFI
+# If your system needs an EFI partition you could add something like
+# this to the recipe above, as the first element in the recipe:
+# 538 538 1075 free \
+# $iflabel{ gpt } \
+# $reusemethod{ } \
+# method{ efi } \
+# format{ } \
+# . \
+#
+# The fragment above is for the amd64 architecture; the details may be
+# different on other architectures. The 'partman-auto' package in the
+# D-I source repository may have an example you can follow.
+
# This makes partman automatically partition without confirmation, provided
# that you told it what to do using one of the methods above.
d-i partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
@@ -1213,6 +1232,16 @@ d-i partman/choose_partition select finish
d-i partman/confirm boolean true
d-i partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
+# Force UEFI booting ('BIOS compatibility' will be lost). Default: false.
+#d-i partman-efi/non_efi_system boolean true
+# Ensure the partition table is GPT - this is required for EFI
+#d-i partman-basicfilesystems/choose_label string gpt
+#d-i partman-basicfilesystems/default_label string gpt
+#d-i partman-partitioning/choose_label string gpt
+#d-i partman-partitioning/default_label string gpt
+#d-i partman/choose_label string gpt
+#d-i partman/default_label string gpt
+
# When disk encryption is enabled, skip wiping the partitions beforehand.
#d-i partman-auto-crypto/erase_disks boolean false
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