Bug 28138 - Diskdrake hides important filesystems ESP and BIOS boot
Summary: Diskdrake hides important filesystems ESP and BIOS boot
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mageia tools maintainers
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Reported: 2021-01-17 11:50 CET by Morgan Leijström
Modified: 2021-01-19 00:04 CET (History)
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Description Morgan Leijström 2021-01-17 11:50:58 CET 
Mission:
Try to install to a removeable disk with intention to be able to be booted on "any" computer.

Problem:
Diskdrake only lists the ESP when you boot in UEFI mode
And only lists the BIOS boot partition only when you boot in legacy mode.

Really, it should at least in expert mode list both always.

With the myriad of ancient and exotic filesystems it lists in expert mode, there is no reason to hide two of the more common...

While at it:
Clicking button Type in main dialogue the filesystems are nicely listed alphabetically.  But when selecting type when creating the partition it is a mess.  Could instead the first mentioned selection list be used here too?
Morgan Leijström 2021-01-17 11:52:05 CET

Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatools
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA7TOO

Comment 1 Morgan Leijström 2021-01-19 00:04:36 CET 
Workaround using GUI:

First use gparted to clear the disk and create a FAT16 *) partition, format it and set esp flag.

In diskdrake that is seen as "vfat" with 0xef partition type which is correct for ESP.

*) running from 8RC Live, gparted do not support FAT12 and it set minimum size 16MB for FAT16, for FAT32 33MB.
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