On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 01:57:28AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> (2015-11-26): >> I've pushed a trivial fix for this today, so new unstable/testing >> d-i builds should be more useful for folks on GPT media. What do you >> think about adding this for new Jessie builds? (And how's the best way >> to do that?) > >Ah, I initially looked at debian-cd, but that's just debian-installer. >Apart from a missing changelog entry, I'm happy to cherry-pick the said >commit into the jessie branch for a later upload for a point release: >| commit c9e26e4e97b72fefd6c1ea894aba33750fdded53 >| Author: Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> >| Date: Thu Nov 26 16:20:37 2015 +0000 >| >| Add the part_gpt module into the core grub image >| >| Make it easier for users doing slightly different things with our >| images; include support for GPT partition tables as well as msdos >| Closes: #789600 >| > >I'm not familiar with this area. Is it sufficient to add it to some >search command to make it available? I mean: will the grub module be >where it's expected, or is some pre-existing copy step needed for that >to work? (I see it's available in various grub-* packages, and a >suitable grub-* package will likely be installed at this point, so I >suppose the addition to the search command might be sufficient, but >let's be sure.)
AFAICS it should just work (TM) - the existing code there is just listing on the grub-mkimage command line the modules that we want built-in. As we're already clearly using part_msdos, part_gpt is built at the same level so should get picked up in the same way. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "When C++ is your hammer, everything looks like a thumb." -- Steven M. Haflich
