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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon solus-project

UEFI - Allow user to select ESP for bootloader installation.

Open deepakkapoor23 opened this issue 8 years ago • 3 comments

Installer detects all ESPs but only shows the first suitable one as an option in combobox.

def get_suitable_esp(self): """ Attempt to find the suitable ESP.... """ l = self.dp.collect_esp() if not l: return None e = l[0] if e.freespace < ESP_FREE_REQUIRED: return None return e

deepakkapoor23 avatar May 15 '17 03:05 deepakkapoor23

And the issue with that is... ?

ikeydoherty avatar May 15 '17 13:05 ikeydoherty

Installer is not listing all available ESPs on the system. It only shows the first one it finds with more than 60Mb free space.

List all of them during installation with free space available and let the user decide. Also show a note on screen that at least 60Mb is required.

deepakkapoor23 avatar May 15 '17 15:05 deepakkapoor23

You do realise that many systems will happily ignore multiple ESPs - and it's typically only full desktops that are OK with it? Laptops of various vendors (read: shitty firmware) can struggle with multiple ESPs, or just completely ignore them, or provide no mechanism at all to select a secondary.

Sidenote, the method returns the largest ESP with more than 60MB free.

ikeydoherty avatar May 16 '17 00:05 ikeydoherty