On 18/07/2025 at 13:14, Andrew Sayers wrote:
I've updated partman's wiki page with information
I couldn't find in the official documentation:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Partman
`$bios_boot{ }` appears to be an old option, and I can't
find any evidence `$gptonly{ }` was ever actually implemented.
I am quite new to partman-auto but have never seen any of these.
Do you have any evidence that '$bios_boot{ }' was ever implemented ?
'method{ biosgrub }' is just a regular specifier (creates an arbitrary
file in the partition directory) among many others, why specifically
mention it ?
If you would rather not mention that sort of thing in partman-auto-recipe.txt, could you link to the wiki page instead? That should let users find the page, but understand it's less official.
I opened a merge request against debian-installer to update partman-auto-recipe.txt with missing descriptions and some clarifications:
<https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/merge_requests/66>