Bug 17611

Summary: EFI partitions are type 0xEF
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Matt Domsch <matt_domsch>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Michael Fulbright <msf>
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Version: 7.3CC: johnsonm, notting
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Hardware: ia64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: Florence Beta-3
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Description Matt Domsch 2000-09-18 17:02:55 UTC
Anaconda, fdisk, etc. need to know that EFI partitions are type 0xEF, and 
have FAT16 or FAT32 file systems.

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2001-01-11 17:10:08 UTC
Is this referring to the /boot/efi partition?  This would require substantial
changes to how we allocate partitions, and seems to work as it is currently setup.

Comment 2 Matt Domsch 2001-01-11 17:28:14 UTC
Yes, /boot/efi is the EFI System Partition.  Per the EFI spec, it carries a DOS 
type of 0xef to distinguish it from type 0x6.  May not be critical, as 0x6 does 
indeed work today.

Comment 3 Glen Foster 2001-01-11 21:16:20 UTC
This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Florence Gold release

Comment 4 Michael Fulbright 2001-01-17 17:33:43 UTC
Will defer this for now since it appears to work.

Comment 5 Matt Domsch 2001-04-30 21:05:04 UTC
I'm re-opening this for consideration again now that the IA-32 release is 
finished.

Comment 6 Bill Nottingham 2001-04-30 21:36:17 UTC
FWIW, one of the partition types (6, I believe) doesn't work at all on
the Compaq box here. EFI never sees it... (this could be a bug in their
smartarray EFI driver, though.)

Comment 7 Bill Nottingham 2001-05-01 22:11:32 UTC
OK, this is fixed in CVS. It should be in the next build.