Re: Preparing dual boot (Was: Automated testing of d-i)
On 02/06/2025 at 19:07, Roland Clobus wrote:
* After finishing the installation and rebooting, only the Windows boot
option was present and working. (I guess the EFI variables need to point
to the current partition)
grub-install should have set EFI boot variables appropriately. Can you
check grub-installer and efibootmgr logs in /var/log/installer/syslog ?
* Should dual boot of Windows and Debian on the same HD be possible and
easy?
Yes, but faulty UEFI implementations may get in the way.
* Should the d-i be able to shrink the NTFS-Bitlocker partition to free
up some space for Debian?
Is it even possible ? Does ntfsresize know or need to know about Bitlocker ?
* Why is a second EFI system partition created?
Blame me. partman-auto 170 checks that reused partitions have the
minimum size in the recipe. The minimum size for the ESP has also been
raised to 768MB, in order to leave enough espace for BLS scheme
(implemented by systemd-boot) which needs to store linux images and
initramfs in the ESP in addition to the boot loader.
* Does it hurt that the order of the partitioning is out-of-order (the
Debian partitions are numbered after the recovery partition, fdisk
complain about this)?
No.
* Am I doing things the way they should be
I guess so.
* Would dual booting with Windows 10 be easier?
I don't think so.
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