Re: experiences with debian amd64 EFI test CD, build 3

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 12:39:46AM +0200, Carolin Latze wrote:
>gdisk -l:
>
>GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.5
>
>Partition table scan:
>  MBR: protective
>  BSD: not present
>  APM: not present
>  GPT: present
>
>Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
>Disk /dev/sda: 488397168 sectors, 232.9 GiB
>Logical sector size: 512 bytes
>Disk identifier (GUID): DC6C63D0-E6B6-4E92-B4E1-34A2E01E4E86
>Partition table holds up to 128 entries
>First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 488397134
>Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
>Total free space is 5331245 sectors (2.5 GiB)
>
>Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
>   1            2048          206847   100.0 MiB   EF00  EFI system
>partition
>   2          206848          468991   128.0 MiB   0C01  Microsoft
>reserved part
>   3          468992       430082047   204.9 GiB   0700  Basic data
>partition
>   4       430082048       430331903   122.0 MiB   EF00
>   5       430331904       432285695   954.0 MiB   8200
>   6       432285696       483067903   24.2 GiB    0700
>
>The code seems to be the same (EF00 for each of the EFI boot partitions :-/)

OK, thanks for that. Hmmm, not quite sure why it's not using the
existing partition here. Do you have anything important on the Debian
system yet? Could you try a reinstall and grab the syslog off for me
please?

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.