Bug 960689
Summary: | Provide a more useful error message when user fails to set up EFI system partition correctly for UEFI install | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Adam Williamson <awilliam> |
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Brian Lane <bcl> |
Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 19 | CC: | anaconda-maint-list, bugzilla, cpanceac, g.kaviyarasu, jonathan, mkolman, sbueno, vanmeeuwen+fedora |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
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Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
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Last Closed: | 2014-01-28 01:14:16 UTC | Type: | Bug |
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Description
Adam Williamson
2013-05-07 17:04:20 UTC
For UEFI computers, the installer should create the EFI System partition rather than ask the user to do it. It's esoteric knowledge, and each GPT disk should have an ESP which Manual Partitioning can't even do as far as I know. Why do you say that? I haven't tried it, but EFI System Partition is just a type in custom part, presumably you can create as many partitions of that type as you like... You can't, because newui doesn't create partitions. It creates mount points (which may be partitions, LVs, or btrfs subvolumes). Since I have no mount point to specify for additional EFI System partitions on additional disks, I have no way of creating them through the installer. BIOS Boot, and EFI System partitions are in the same category as the MBR gap, it's silly to ask them to create any of these things, even in Manual Partitioning. Call it /frobdingnagian and just remove the mount point after creating it...or after installing...a mount point's just a mount point, after all. It's a work around for a deficiency: the user has to lie to the installer, and then back out of the lie once he gets what he wants, which is something he shouldn't have to do in the first place. And while the EFI spec doesn't require the ESP be the first partition, ideally it should be. Oh, hey, look, I just fixed my own bug. https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/blivet.git/commit/?id=c81cbd05a5e29b1c82706fc5a3b09424c087ba0d *** Bug 1023159 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |