** Description changed: + [Impact] + + * It may cause the installation failed when the users use + https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed under some conditions. + + [Test Case] + + * Prepare a computer with UEFI secure boot enabled that has two system storage drives, such as /dev/nvme0n1 and /dev/sda. + * Install the general Ubuntu system on /dev/nvme0n1 first. + * Use debian-installer netboot images with the following d-i preseeds to install another Ubuntu on /dev/sda. + * During the installation on /dev/sda, it will use /dev/nvme0n1p1 instead of /dev/sda1 as the EFI System Partition. + + [Regression Potential] + + * None + + [Other Info] + + * This issue is found in Ubuntu OEM projects that used dell-recovery + /ubuntu-recovery on the platforms that have more than one system storage + drive. + + ---- Current implementation in partman-efi/fstab.d/efi is to find the - first EFI System Partition (abbr. ESP) to use when we provided - some kind of partman-auto/expert_recipe. - - However if the system has more than two ESPs, partman-efi will still - use the first ESP it found even when we specify what we want in - partman-auto/disk. - - For example, when the system has /dev/nvme0n1 and /dev/sda and we - specified partman-auto/disk and partman-auto/expert_recipe as the following. + first EFI System Partition (abbr. ESP) to use when we provided + some kind of partman-auto/expert_recipe. - d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda - d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \ - \ - ubuntu :: \ - 100 150 200 free \ - $iflabel{ gpt } \ - $reusemethod{ } \ - method{ efi } \ - format{ } . \ - \ - 500 10000 4000000 ext4 \ - $primary{ } \ - method{ format } \ - format{ } \ - use_filesystem{ } \ - filesystem{ ext4 } \ - mountpoint{ / } . \ - \ - 105% 150% 200% linux-swap \ - method{ swap } \ - format{ } \ - . + However if the system has more than two ESPs, partman-efi will still + use the first ESP it found even when we specify what we want in + partman-auto/disk. - If there is already another Linux system installed in /dev/nvme0n1, - partman-efi will reuse /dev/nvme0n1p1 and mount it at - /target/boot/efi instead of reusing /dev/sda1 that we specify in - partman-auto/disk. + For example, when the system has /dev/nvme0n1 and /dev/sda and we + specified partman-auto/disk and partman-auto/expert_recipe as the following. - This should not be the behavior that we expected it will be. + d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda + d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \ + \ + ubuntu :: \ + 100 150 200 free \ + $iflabel{ gpt } \ + $reusemethod{ } \ + method{ efi } \ + format{ } . \ + \ + 500 10000 4000000 ext4 \ + $primary{ } \ + method{ format } \ + format{ } \ + use_filesystem{ } \ + filesystem{ ext4 } \ + mountpoint{ / } . \ + \ + 105% 150% 200% linux-swap \ + method{ swap } \ + format{ } \ + . + + If there is already another Linux system installed in /dev/nvme0n1, + partman-efi will reuse /dev/nvme0n1p1 and mount it at + /target/boot/efi instead of reusing /dev/sda1 that we specify in + partman-auto/disk. + + This should not be the behavior that we expected it will be.
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