Re: Backport fix for #789600?
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 01:57:28AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> (2015-11-26):
>> I've pushed a trivial fix for this today, so new unstable/testing
>> d-i builds should be more useful for folks on GPT media. What do you
>> think about adding this for new Jessie builds? (And how's the best way
>> to do that?)
>
>Ah, I initially looked at debian-cd, but that's just debian-installer.
>Apart from a missing changelog entry, I'm happy to cherry-pick the said
>commit into the jessie branch for a later upload for a point release:
>| commit c9e26e4e97b72fefd6c1ea894aba33750fdded53
>| Author: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
>| Date: Thu Nov 26 16:20:37 2015 +0000
>|
>| Add the part_gpt module into the core grub image
>|
>| Make it easier for users doing slightly different things with our
>| images; include support for GPT partition tables as well as msdos
>| Closes: #789600
>|
>
>I'm not familiar with this area. Is it sufficient to add it to some
>search command to make it available? I mean: will the grub module be
>where it's expected, or is some pre-existing copy step needed for that
>to work? (I see it's available in various grub-* packages, and a
>suitable grub-* package will likely be installed at this point, so I
>suppose the addition to the search command might be sufficient, but
>let's be sure.)
AFAICS it should just work (TM) - the existing code there is just
listing on the grub-mkimage command line the modules that we want
built-in. As we're already clearly using part_msdos, part_gpt is built
at the same level so should get picked up in the same way.
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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