On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 02:34:47PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: >Hi, > ><vincent.mcint...@csiro.au> wrote: >> Package: installation-guide >> Version: 20180930 >> Severity: wishlist >> Tags: patch >> >> Hi >> >> recently I was learning about presseding UEFI installs and >> I think the install guide could use a small addition to make >> that journey easier. I also sent a patch to partman-auto-recipe.txt >> but I am sure the readership of that is much less than the d-i manual. > >I am unable to proof the patch correct or not, could anyone comment on that?
All I can say is It Works For Us, on plenty of amd64 installs over the last year. The patch has evolved a little since then, inline below. Please let me know if you'd rather a MR. Vince diff --git a/en/appendix/preseed.xml b/en/appendix/preseed.xml index d7570d6b3..817749bb9 100644 --- a/en/appendix/preseed.xml +++ b/en/appendix/preseed.xml @@ -1206,6 +1211,20 @@ d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select atomic # system labels, volume group names and which physical devices to include # in a volume group. +## Partitioning for EFI +# If your system needs an EFI partition you could add something like +# this to the recipe above, as the first element in the recipe: +# 538 538 1075 free \ +# $iflabel{ gpt } \ +# $reusemethod{ } \ +# method{ efi } \ +# format{ } \ +# . \ +# +# The fragment above is for the amd64 architecture; the details may be +# different on other architectures. The 'partman-auto' package in the +# D-I source repository may have an example you can follow. + # This makes partman automatically partition without confirmation, provided # that you told it what to do using one of the methods above. d-i partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label boolean true @@ -1213,6 +1232,16 @@ d-i partman/choose_partition select finish d-i partman/confirm boolean true d-i partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true +# Force UEFI booting ('BIOS compatibility' will be lost). Default: false. +#d-i partman-efi/non_efi_system boolean true +# Ensure the partition table is GPT - this is required for EFI +#d-i partman-basicfilesystems/choose_label string gpt +#d-i partman-basicfilesystems/default_label string gpt +#d-i partman-partitioning/choose_label string gpt +#d-i partman-partitioning/default_label string gpt +#d-i partman/choose_label string gpt +#d-i partman/default_label string gpt + # When disk encryption is enabled, skip wiping the partitions beforehand. #d-i partman-auto-crypto/erase_disks boolean false </screen></informalexample>