Re: d-i status wrt i386 & amd64 EFI machines
Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
Hi,
> There is no provision to say "partition the drive, but leave the first one
> alone". Especially for the first partition (if it is #1 and at the
> beginning of the disk) that should be possible to implement though by
> coding what I described in [1] (the recipe used should then of course not
> include an EFI partition).
I kind of expected something like that, to be honest :) It sure gets
complicated when the partition to keep is in the middle of the disk,
but fortunately that case shouldn't happen.
Also being able to automatically "protect" a partition could be also
be useful on mips for SGI machines where a volume header must exist on
the disk. Though I don't remember how this is handled by d-i, it's
been like forever since I last ran d-i on an SGI.
Anyway, one thing at a time; there are several levels of support we
can provide, let's get something basic working first and build from
there.
JB.
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