By no means am I a developer, but that sounds like a good idea.
On Thu, Feb 1, 2018, at 3:01 AM, Gábor Boskovits wrote:
> 2018-02-01 10:13 GMT+01:00 Gábor Boskovits <boskov...@gmail.com>:
>> 2018-01-31 20:01 GMT+01:00 Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-
>> berlin.de>:>>> The manual section “Preparing for Installation: Disk
>>> Partitioning” says>>> this:
>>>
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>> If your disk uses the GUID Partition Table (GPT) format and you
>>> plan>>> to install BIOS-based GRUB (which is the default), make sure a
>>> BIOS Boot>>> Partition is available (*note (grub)BIOS installation::).
>>>
>>> If you instead wish to use EFI-based GRUB, a FAT32 “EFI System
>>> Partition” (ESP) is required. This partition should be mounted at>>>
>>> ‘/boot/efi’ and must have the ‘esp’ flag set. E.g., for ‘parted’:>>>
>>> parted /dev/sda set 1 esp on
>>>
>>> Once you are done partitioning the target hard disk drive, you
>>> have>>> to create a file system on the relevant partition(s)(1). For
>>> the ESP,>>> if you have one and assuming it is ‘/dev/sda2’, run:
>>>
>>> mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda2
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>>
>>> First, this sounds like it’s up to the user to pick either EFI-
>>> based>>> GRUB or BIOS-based GRUB. It is not clear that this is
>>> determined by>>> whether the machine has a {BIOS, EFI in legacy mode} or
>>> EFI. It’s>>> really not much of a choice.
>>>
>>> Second, the “parted” command operates on the first partition
>>> (“1”), yet>>> for the second command the second partition (“/dev/sda2”) is
>>> used. It’s>>> better to be consistent here, i.e. to change “set 1 esp
>>> on” to
>>> “set 2>>> esp on” and to state that this would modify “/dev/sda2”.
>>>
>>> Finally, it is not clear where the efi partition should be mounted.>>>
>>> Should it be /mnt/boot/efi? If so, should the configuration file
>>> specify “/mnt/boot/efi” as the target? Or should it be
>>> “/boot/efi”?>>>
>>> An example would be useful here.
>>>
>> I agree an example would be nice.
>> I will have a look at this when I have time.
>> I guess I had done something similar.
>>
> I've just looked around and found that we have ovmf in our repository.> It
> would be nice if we could create a system test and use an ovmf qemu
> to test installation.> Once we have that we could get the documentation
> consistent with a
> working testcase.> WDYT?
>>
>>
>>> --
>>> Ricardo
>>>
>>>
>>
