Hi,
Am 26. Oktober 2024 17:01:56 MESZ schrieb Pascal Hambourg
<[email protected]>:
>
>Unless I am missing something, things seem to be quite simple to me:
>- EFI boot -> set the ESP type (partman "efi" method, parted 'esp' flag) to
>the EFI partition (already done);
>- non-EFI boot -> set the "legacy BIOS bootable" attribute on GPT (parted
>'legacy_boot' flag) or the "boot" flag on DOS/MBR (partman "bootable"
>specifier, parted 'boot' flag).
>
>Now how do we make partman manage the 'legacy_boot' flag in recipes and manual
>partitioning ? See proposals in previous mails.
For the recipe / guided partitioning part:
To be backward-compatible for the already existing identifier,, and keep
the format consistent, I would prefer using identifiers like
$bootable{ }
$legacy_boot{ }
as proposed in
<https://salsa.debian.org/pham/partman-auto/-/commits/legacy_boot_specifier/?ref_type=heads>
Holger
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