Hi, Holger Wansing <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I came across this open (and longstanding) bugs: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=644430 > and > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=691046 > which ask to document the need of a BIOS boot partition when a gpt partition > table is used. > > The basic issue has been solved within partman apparently (on gpt, a 1 MB > free > space gets automatically created at the beginning of the disk) > (see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=491376). > > > Nevertheless, I think it makes sense to write some words about this in the > installation-guide? > > I have prepared a patch for this and would like to receive some comments, if > I got it all correctly. > The additional content will be added to "Appendix C. Partitioning for Debian" > https://d-i.debian.org/doc/installation-guide/en.amd64/apcs05.html#idm4025
Since noone objected, I will commit this shortly. Thanks Holger -- Holger Wansing <[email protected]> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
