Bug#775109: debian-installer: fails to format existing EFI system partition if fat32
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:10:39AM -0500, Andrew Brouwers wrote:
>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.
It's a deliberate choice, nothing particularly to do with it being 16-
or 32-bit. We try to keep existing ESPs in case there are other OSes
using them, basically.
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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