Bug#924290: [rfc] information about EFI partitions
Package: installation-guide
Version: 20180930
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi
recently I was learning about presseding UEFI installs and
I think the install guide could use a small addition to make
that journey easier. I also sent a patch to partman-auto-recipe.txt
but I am sure the readership of that is much less than the d-i manual.
Kind regards
Vince
From 4697c54b3f61bc145980f52206bb20e2280c0a63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vincent McIntyre <vincent.mcintyre@csiro.au>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 15:38:19 +1100
Subject: [RFC PATCH] Add some information about preseeding EFI partitions
---
en/appendix/preseed.xml | 17 +++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/en/appendix/preseed.xml b/en/appendix/preseed.xml
index c55860e34..9e334738a 100644
--- a/en/appendix/preseed.xml
+++ b/en/appendix/preseed.xml
@@ -1211,6 +1211,20 @@ d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select atomic
# system labels, volume group names and which physical devices to include
# in a volume group.
+## Partitioning for EFI
+# If your system needs an EFI partition you could add something like
+# this to the recipe above, as the first element in the recipe:
+# 538 538 1075 free \
+# $iflabel{ gpt } \
+# $reusemethod{ } \
+# method{ efi } \
+# format{ } \
+# . \
+#
+# The fragment above is for the amd64 architecture; the details may be
+# different on other architectures. The 'partman-auto' package in the
+# D-I source repository may have an example you can follow.
+
# This makes partman automatically partition without confirmation, provided
# that you told it what to do using one of the methods above.
d-i partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
@@ -1218,6 +1232,9 @@ d-i partman/choose_partition select finish
d-i partman/confirm boolean true
d-i partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
+# Force UEFI booting ('BIOS compatibility' will be lost). Default: false.
+#d-i partman-efi/non_efi_system boolean true
+
# When disk encryption is enabled, skip wiping the partitions beforehand.
#d-i partman-auto-crypto/erase_disks boolean false
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