Subject: bug#44353: [PATCH version-1.2.0 v2 2/3] bootloader: grub: Skip install-grub-efi when producing a disk image.

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 13:29:37 -0500

Hello,

Mathieu Othacehe <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hello Maxim,
>
>> As introducing bootloader knowledge at the level of the image code is
>> undesirable, every bootloader should be adapted to support this fall-back for
>> their installation procedure (TODO).
>
> Or maybe find a way to remove the need to call "bootloader-installer"
> when producing a disk-image as we discussed on IRC.

I looked into this option, using GPT + a 1 MiB boot partition, hoping to
produce a GRUB to put there with grub mkstandalone, but that is too big
to fit for the i386-pc format requirements, sadly.

Maxim