Bug 32000

Summary: CI/diskdrake minimum selectable size for BIOS boot / empty partition.
Product: Mageia Reporter: Antony Baker <jasperodus>
Component: InstallerAssignee: Mageia tools maintainers <mageiatools>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: fri
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: Mageia 10   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: drakxtools CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments: Attachment showing 14MB created partition (even though 7MB selected).

Description Antony Baker 2023-06-09 21:57:03 CEST 
Created attachment 13868 [details]
Attachment showing 14MB created partition (even though 7MB selected).

While using an Mga9 (Beta2) CI within a VM to generate updated screenshots for the Mga9 installer manuals, I ran into an issue creating a BIOS boot / empty partition in the installer Partitioning stage.

The relevant text in the Mga8 CI manual for this reads:
"If you are using a Legacy (also known as BIOS) system with a GPT partitioned
disk, you need to create a BIOS boot partition if it doesn't already exist.
It should be about 1 MiB with no mount point."

However, in Mga9 (Beta2) CI, the minimum selectable partition size is 7MB. Furthermore, if 7MB is selected as the size - the resulting created partition is 14MB (verified several times).

Ultimately, this inconsistency between the intaller text suggesting a size of around 1MB - and the minimum selectable of 7MB (plus also the fact that the actual created size is not 7MB, but 14MB) will be quite confusing for people.

If the Mga8 CI was able to create a minimum partition size of 1MB, and gparted currently is able also to do, then (as suggested by Dave Hodgins) this seems likely due to a change made to diskdrake.

QA ML thread:
https://ml.mageia.org/l/arc/qa-discuss/2023-06/msg00134.html

Thanks,
Antony.
Comment 1 Morgan Leijström 2023-06-09 22:13:57 CEST 
Congratulations to the first bug report!
Thank you.
Welcome aboard :)

Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatools
CC: (none) => fri
Keywords: (none) => FOR_ERRATA9

Comment 2 Antony Baker 2023-06-10 12:28:25 CEST 
Thank you Morgan.
Comment 3 Morgan Leijström 2023-06-21 08:40:49 CEST 
Reconsidering: Not bad enough for errata

And setting to mga10 as we do not want to fiddle with our tools more than really needed this close to release.

Source RPM: (none) => drakxtools
Keywords: FOR_ERRATA9 => (none)
Target Milestone: --- => Mageia 10