Bug#843593: Please add support for ESP partitions

Hi. I've done some more research. It turns out that being able to create an ESP partition on a bios disk label is a lot more useful than I thought it is. In the cloud space (and when I'm creating an image to be burned onto real hardware) I tend to resize the partition table and filesystems to

Bug#843593: Please add support for ESP partitions

> "Thomas" == Thomas Lange writes: Thomas> I found the thread on the linux-fai mailing list and also Thomas> the code that added efi support into setup-storage. In the Thomas> end we remove the code from FAI, since it was not needed any Thomas>

Bug#843593: Please add support for ESP partitions

I found the thread on the linux-fai mailing list and also the code that added efi support into setup-storage. In the end we remove the code from FAI, since it was not needed any more. It's much easier to get a partition of type ESP. Just create a disk gpt disk label, a partition of type vfat that

Bug#843593: Please add support for ESP partitions

package: fai version: 5.2 tags: patch severity: wishlist It's impossible to use FAI to install for a platform/system that requires UEFI because FAI does not currently support setting up a extended system partition as required by the UEFI spec. This patch adds code to do that. I did not update