Bug#858029: partman-efi: Manual partinioning in EFI system without EFI boot partition does not trigger an error message

[Miguel Hermanns <miguel.hermanns@gmail.com>]

Dear Steve,

It was the first time I installed something in EFI mode, as in the past I always switched back to legacy mode. So I'm quite sure I booted in EFI mode.

After the installation and seeing that the computer was not booting, I started to research in the internet and found the Debian installation guide I mention in the bug report. After that I started to understand what was going wrong and I installed again Debian from scratch and without changing anything in the BIOS. But this time I allowed partman to do a guided partitioning, which I afterwards tuned to my needs. Partman of course included the EFI boot partition, and this time everything went fine.

Best regards,

Miguel

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 03:20:33PM +0100, Miguel Hermanns wrote:
>Package: partman-efi
>Version: 75
>Severity: important
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>
>When installing debian stretch RC2, manual partitioning was done without
>specifying an EFI boot partition. This did not trigger an error message
>by partman, although according to section 6.3.3.3 of the installation
>guide it should have done so.

Hi Miguel,

That's how the code has worked for me in the past, and it's not
changed in quite a while. Are you sure you booted in EFI mode?

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