Re: d-i status wrt i386 & amd64 EFI machines
Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> 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.
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