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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon void-linux

Incorrect partition table instructions

Open gsruff opened this issue 6 years ago • 1 comments

From what I understand, GPT disklabels do not use flags like MBR disks. The warning before partitioning in the installer states "For EFI systems GPT is mandatory and a FAT32 partition with at least 100MB must be created with the TOGGLE 'boot', this will be used as EFI System Partition. This partition must have mountpoint as '/boot/efi'."

Setting this "boot" flag on a GPT disk partition using cfdisk is not possible. Setting the partition type as EFI System in cfdisk establishes that this is the boot partition.

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gsruff avatar May 24 '19 20:05 gsruff

While I agree with you that these instructions are probably wrong, I am aware of at least 2 BIOS/UEFI implementations that are flawed and require the appropriate location on disk contain the right values even when booting in UEFI mode.

the-maldridge avatar May 26 '19 04:05 the-maldridge