On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 09:32:56AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: >Package: grub-installer >Version: 1.110 > >I'm forwarding this patch from Ubuntu: > >https://launchpad.net/bugs/1303790 > >On EFI, the boot disk argument given to grub-install is a dummy and is >often the wrong disk or a non existent disk. Grub is still installed to >the correct place since it goes through the filesystem to /boot/EFI, but >the function make_active_partition tries to look at the partition table >on the dummy disk and throws an error. Hence, I wrote the attached >patch to disable the function on EFI.
Hi Phillip, The logic looks ok, I guess, but I'd check more explicitly for grub-efi-* instead of !grub-pc. There's several other architectures that may use grub, and I'm not sure if/how they may need special handling for active partitions... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor, Integrity and Loyalty. Now you don't have to be a Caesar to concord the digital world while feeling safe and proud. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
