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partman-auto package

  1. Bug #1418706
  2. Comment #33

Comment 33 for bug 1418706

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Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote : Re: Vivid: UEFI: blank drive incorrectly detected as existing BIOS-mode install

I've been looking into this last night and this morning; fix for partman-auto is now in the queue for review by archive admins.

Looks like this was because efi recipes used "free" rather than explicitly setting the partition filesystem type to "fat32" or some value of FAT as per the UEFI spec; so for some reason this showed up as ext3 until the partition was properly formatted, which would have happened *after* the extra uefi warning, if it wasn't breaking things in other ways.

I'm splitting this into a separate bug for the Force UEFI warning which appears to be handled incorrectly and is worded in a confusing manner.