Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,
>> Which brings us to the core of the issue. Installing rEFIt means: >> - copying rEFIt to the EFI system partition (first partition on the >> disk, FAT32, ca. 200 MB on Apple machines) > > This may also require changes in partman, especially in guided partitioning > if it should be possible to reuse a pre-existing EFI system partition. Yes, that's part of the plan. > There already is code to recognize Intel Macs as a separate subarch which > allows to use separate partitioning recipes that could include a EFI system > partition, but currently that means the existing one would probably be > lost. Which is not a good idea :) So if Mac && 1st partition is FAT32 -> mark the partition as being the EFI partition (can be generalized to all the EFI machines I think). > Not sure how EFI based servers (when booted as pure EFI) should be > recognized. Also as a separate subarch? By special casing them? (i386 || amd64) && !Mac && efivars loaded -> EFI machine > OTOH, I would expect most sysadmins of servers to do manual partitioning > anyway. So do I. JB. -- Julien BLACHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Debian, because code matters more Debian & GNU/Linux Developer | <http://www.debian.org> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
