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Bug#775109: marked as done (debian-installer: fails to format existing EFI system partition if fat32)

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Package: debian-installer
Version: 20150107

I've tried using each beta2 + a daily image (from 20150109) to install debian on a laptop, which already had partitions in place.  This includes an EFI partition, which was formatted on a previous distribution using "mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/foo"

During installation of jessie, the installer recognized the partition well, and allowed me to delete the contents.  However, it refused to easily allow me to format it, always opting to keep the data (shown with a "K" in the summary page).

I suspect that the debian installer wasn't quite sure how to handle it being 32-bit, as the D-I seems to prefer and use 16.  As a result, the partitioning failed.  I was eventually able to go back, and after some selecting/un-selecting, finally noticed that the installer flagged the partition with "f" for format.

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On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 09:20:02AM -0500, Andrew Brouwers wrote:
>On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 9:47 PM, Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
>>
>> Very off - that doesn't match my own memory of testing this. We also
        ^odd - oops! :-)

>> deliberately choose to format with FAT32 on amd64! Hmmm, curious now -
>> is there anything special about the NLS settings of the earlier OS,
>> maybe?
>>
>Not to my knowledge, no; the partitioning was done from scratch using
>gdisk, and the fat32 partition (for the ESP) was created with
>"mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sdaX"
>.  D-I recognized the partition as ESP without issue, but failed when I
>tried to re-use it (ie, selecting "manual" partitioning), regardless if I
>erased the contents or not.
>
>It's working fine now, so perhaps I have a weird scenario, and the bug
>should be closed.  I won't be too willing to re-create the issue, since
>Jessie is up and running quite well!

OK, fair enough. :-)

>Thanks a lot for your review.

No problem! Closing the bug now...

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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