Hi Ben, Some recent work has been done on Calamares which will fix some of this try updating Calamares in the current alpha iso. As I understand it the install to a single partition may work now. Best, Colin
On Sunday 24 May 2015 14:34:50 Ben Bullard wrote: > This is on 2 separate computers. I'm testing this weekend the .iso user > would download from our website: > > https://www.openmandriva.org/Downloads > > ie. that which is on SourceForge and our mirrors. Both computers have > multiple partitions and existing Linux OS's already installed in > UEFI-boot mode. Ergo existing /boot/efi partition. > > To get it to install on UEFI computers I have to: > > 1. Boot into Live mode then run 'urpmi.update -a' then > > 2. 'urpmi grub2 grub2-efi efivar efibootmgr'. All of which update to > newer packages. > > 3. Start installer (drake-live-install) where one must select 'Custom > partitioning' not 'Install on existing partitions' so one can select the > existing '/boot/efi' partition. > > 4. On both computers Grub2 appeared to install. But upon reboot the > previous grub2 menu was there. Then I find out that initrd wasn't built > so I have to chroot into newly installed OS and build initrd with dracut > and: > > 5. # grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg > #grub2-install /dev/sdx > > I would seem to me to be a kool thing if we could make this something > which 'just works' on our 2014.2 release. Also giving another valid > reason for said release. Steps 1 and 2 should not be necessary and a > 2014.2 spin. The bit in 3 about you must select 'Custom partitioning' > should probably be in release notes. In fact maybe should be there right > now. Finally I'm hoping we can get it to actually build initrd and > install grub2 correctly as current OM Lx 3 build 10850 does. At least > build 10850 does that here. > > _______________________________________________ OM-Cooker mailing list [email protected] http://ml.openmandriva.org/listinfo.cgi/om-cooker-openmandriva.org
