On 03/05/2018 11:32 AM, Hermann Lauer wrote:
At least with the stretch installer there is no problem with using a MBR partitioning on the am64 arch. You maybe can't select it, but if you generate a MBR partitioning using the shell inside the installer this will work.
Ok, after a quick look it seems that this particular configuration is actually supported by the grub-installer:
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/d-i/grub-installer.git/tree/grub-installer#n338
On EFI systems, it will test whether /var/lib/partman/ignore_uefi exists which I assume is written by partman if it finds an MBR partition table on an EFI system. We can most certainly add support for that later on sparc*. I just want to get a simple GRUB installation on a clean system working and we're almost there regarding that.
Also IMHO this (EFI partition on MBR) is usefull to work, as the server BIOSses here are all able to boot from an USB stick which usually have MBR partitioning.
This is for installed systems, not for installer images.
As the servers used here all have an internal USB slot thats my favorite setup at the moments.
Why not use a remote KVM? ;) Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
