Anton Hvornum

> > (Booting from a live fedora stick.) > > After opening the LUKS partition, `/boot` on there is empty. The first partition, the EFI partition is attached. > >...

> I have this 100% of the time with `archlinux-2021.08.01-x86_64.iso` on `VirtualBox 6.1.26`. > Options in `archinstall`: > > * `/dev/sda` is empty, and I let `archinstall` do its thing...

<background-rant> I'm quite sure that if we dig through the archives of comments I have historically been quite against this. The main reason for not doing it earlier was that...

> I think it would be a case by case decision to make. I agree, this is a reasonable effort from all parties. My hope is that people don't take...

That will work but assume that someone does `pacman -S python-pyparted` after installing archinstall. Then `pacman` will fail I believe? I haven't tested it myself so It's just a theory...

IIRC this was supposed to be a experimental filesystem hidden behind `--advanced`. And the path looks odd to me:  We will ofc try to fix this and also check...

We'll still take care of this, but in favor of fixing some more critical issues I'm just pushing this back one version.

David has also poked the efivar project asking when we can expect a new release: https://github.com/rhboot/efivar/issues/137

> I just noticed a new efivar version is finally out, I'll test this again as soon as I can eyes Yepp! They announced it two days ago and david...

If you don't touch the `Mirror region` setting in the menu, archinstall shouldn't modify the mirror-list. If it does that's a bug. Testing mirrors shouldn't take more than a few...