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1.2-29a2eb3 Installer fails at final stage installing GRUB.

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From: Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas <rosen644835 <at> gmail.com>
To: Brett Gilio <brettg <at> gnu.org>
Cc: othacehe <at> gnu.org, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, Brendan Tildesley <mail <at> brendan.scot>, 44027 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44027: [PATCH] installer: Create bios_grub partition when it is needed.
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2020 15:09:27 +0200

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Hi,

Brett Gilio <brettg <at> gnu.org> writes:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> Shouldn’t it create a “legacy” partition table rather than GPT since
>> we’re on an old, non-UEFI platform?
>
> That is my thinking as well, it should create a legacy MBR table.

IMHO the old format should be avoided completely when possible.  Why
should we enforce it?

I think this problem involves having a previous ESP partition on the
disk (at least identified as such by parted), because auto-partition!
currently checks that before checking if the booted system has EFI
support.  When that's the case, it doesn't create the needed bios_grub
partition that might have been removed previously.

The attached patch solves that.  What do you think?

Happy hacking,
Miguel

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