On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 10:30:32PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: >Package: partman-efi >Version: 59 > >partman-efi uses flawed logic that trips up when installing from usb. >init.d/efi scans the system and counts the number of efi system >partitions, and the number of non efi system partitions. If it does not >find an EFI system partition, but does find at least one non ESP, then >it throws the non_efi_system warning/question. The problem is that when >installing to a disk that does not already have an efi system partition, >the script *always* detects a non EFI system partition, and throws the >warning. This may be connected to a recent change in libparted. >Looking at the partman logs and the output after adding a set -x to the >init.d/efi script, it appears to me that what is happening is that the >system asks libparted to create a new partition on the hard disk that >will become an EFI system partition. Either init.d/efi runs before the >partition has been formatted with a fat filesystem, or parted_server is >still running and is keeping the "ext2" fs type cached from before it >was formatted. Either way, the script decides it sees an ext2 >filesystem on the drive, and that counts as a non EFI system partition, >and so it throws the message.
Ugh. :-( I'm just about to go on VAC for a few weeks, it's going to be difficult to find time to try and fix this. Help would be very welcome! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "C++ ate my sanity" -- Jon Rabone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150211083329.ga25...@einval.com
