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

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Message #35 received at 44027 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas <rosen644835 <at> gmail.com>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>,
 Brett Gilio <brettg <at> gnu.org>, Brendan Tildesley <mail <at> brendan.scot>,
 44027 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44027: [PATCH] installer: Create bios_grub partition when
 it is needed.
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 15:21:18 +0200

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Hi Mathieu,

Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org> writes:
> Hello Brendan,
>
>> I feel the installer should not care what was on the drive to begin with, it
>> should just
>> format the drive how it sees fit. Why should the existing contents of the
>> drive
>> affect the outcome when we are reformatting everything anyway?
>
> That's the case except for the ESP partition that is preserved by the
> installer because it could contain vendor / operating system specific
> files that should not be wiped.

Is there any other issue remaining?  It doesn't modify this logic at
all.  Should I apply this patch to master then?

Happy hacking!
Miguel

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