Bug 13638

Summary: draklive-install forces me to create a FAT partition in /boot/efi, which I am not prepared to allow
Product: Mageia Reporter: Dick Gevers <dvgevers>
Component: Release (media or process)Assignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: ftg, sysadmin-bugs, thierry.vignaud, tmb
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: Mageia 5 LiveDVD KDE x86_64 iso CVE:
Status comment:

Description Dick Gevers 2014-07-01 20:29:33 CEST 
Description of problem:

As per subject: I do not wish to have any FAT partition on this machine, so I cannot complete the install. IMHO it is a little ridiculous that I cannot create only partitions using ext4 or swap exclusively.




Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 Frank Griffin 2014-07-01 21:22:00 CEST 
I confirm, and it's not just the live media, but a network install as well.

Some thoughts from Col when I asked about this on the dev ML:



'Twas brillig, and Frank Griffin at 01/07/14 11:40 did gyre and gimble:
> As long as you've confirmed that this isn't just PEBKAC, I'll file a bug
> report with the needed stuff, thanks !

I certainly don't think it's PEBKAC - certainly what you described seems
pretty straight forward. I'm guessing it's some kind of Grub or similar
related error, as I've not updated systemd (the other obvious culprit)
or gummiboot (not yet integrated in our tools), so the finger of blame
is pointing either to our tools or grub (thinking about it, it's
probably more likely our tools as grub shouldn't be involved this early
on...)

Col

CC: (none) => ftg

Comment 2 Thomas Backlund 2014-07-01 21:39:51 CEST 
It's a fallout of cleaning up unsupported arches:
http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/commit/?id=6d3faeb9846f336be402f1acab8ffabf3233560f


where the enforced /boot/efi check was restricted by ia64 arch,
so now it triggers for all

Namely the change to partitioning_wizard.pm


I will revert that bit for now, so it's usable again...

CC: (none) => tmb

Comment 3 Mageia Robot 2014-07-01 22:05:16 CEST 
commit 4742a2c44354136dfa18323d46cacc678ebe97a5
Author: Thomas Backlund <tmb@...>
Date:   Tue Jul 1 22:58:44 2014 +0300

    hide /boot/efi check for now (mga#13638)
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 Commit Link:
   http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/commit/?id=4742a2c44354136dfa18323d46cacc678ebe97a5
Comment 4 Thierry Vignaud 2014-07-09 16:00:18 CEST 
Closing

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Resolution: (none) => FIXED