Bug#1086051: [arm64] partman recipes: add new identifier for legacy_boot flag on GPT table?

[Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>]

Hi,

Am 26. Oktober 2024 17:01:56 MESZ schrieb Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>:
>
>Unless I am missing something, things seem to be quite simple to me:
>- EFI boot -> set the ESP type (partman "efi" method, parted 'esp' flag) to the EFI partition (already done);
>- non-EFI boot -> set the "legacy BIOS bootable" attribute on GPT (parted 'legacy_boot' flag) or the "boot" flag on DOS/MBR (partman "bootable" specifier, parted 'boot' flag).
>
>Now how do we make partman manage the 'legacy_boot' flag in recipes and manual partitioning ? See proposals in previous mails.

For the recipe / guided partitioning part:
To be backward-compatible for the already existing identifier,, and keep 
the format consistent, I would prefer using identifiers like

$bootable{ }
$legacy_boot{ }

as proposed in 
<https://salsa.debian.org/pham/partman-auto/-/commits/legacy_boot_specifier/?ref_type=heads>



Holger



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