Bug#491376: recipe for BIOS-based boot on gpt
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 02:10:30PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Saturday 19 July 2008, Robert Millan wrote:
> > This patch adds a recipe for creating a BIOS boot partition when
> > installing on GPT. Note the amd64 directory is not included with the
> > patch, as I would suggest just using a symlink for that (or otherwise
> > copying it).
>
> I assume that you did an 'svn cp' again to create recipes-i386? Please
> mention such things explicitly as it is a rather fundamental change.
Yes, sorry about that (it was close to 3 am and my mind wasn't really bright).
> Also, it's the only part of the change I have problems with. I'd very much
> prefer to continue using the default recipes for i386/amd64 as it is the
> only real way we can be sure the default recipes get tested.
This could be a bit messy. The only ways I can think is to let the other
arches live with a 1 MB partition they won't use, or exclude them explicitly
(from the looks, the list would be "arm armel m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390")
> If we do have to diverge, I think a good case could be made for adding
> recipes-x86 rather then separate recipe dirs for i386 and amd64.
In that case, should we map x86 to i386/amd64 at install time or at run time?
(I suppose runtime would be a good choice to save space).
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