Re: [Xen-devel] [OSSTEST PATCH 21/26] ts-debian-hvm-install: Do not create EFI partition if EFI not in use

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2015-09-18 at 18:50 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> If we are booting our install ISO using a non-EFI executable, don't
> try to provide an EFI for the installed system either.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

FWIW the default recipes used by d-i use "$iflabel{ gpt }" to achieve the
same thing. Actually I'm a bit surprised that this isn't the affect of
"method { efi }" too.

Anyway, this approach is good enough for our purposes so:

Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>


> ---
>  ts-debian-hvm-install |    7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/ts-debian-hvm-install b/ts-debian-hvm-install
> index fb07293..9bc6cc8 100755
> --- a/ts-debian-hvm-install
> +++ b/ts-debian-hvm-install
> @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ our $guesthost= "$gn.guest.osstest";
>  our $gho;
>  
>  our ($kernel, $ramdisk);
> +our $bootfile;
>  
>  our $gsuite;
>  
> @@ -56,7 +57,7 @@ sub preseed () {
>  
>      my $preseed_file = preseed_base($gho,$gsuite,'','',());
>  
> -    $preseed_file .= (<<END);
> +    $preseed_file .= (<<END.($bootfile =~ m/\.efi/ ? <<END : '').<<END);
>  d-i netcfg/get_hostname string $gn
>  
>  d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/xvda
> @@ -64,12 +65,14 @@ d-i partman-auto/method string  regular
>  
>  d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \\
>          boot-root :: \\
> +END
>                  512 50 512 vfat \\
>                          \$primary{ } \$bootable{ } \\
>                          method{ efi } format{ } \\
>                          use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ vfat } \\
>                          mountpoint{ /boot/efi } \\
>                  . \\
> +END
>                  5000 50 5000 ext4 \\
>                          method{ format } format{ } \\
>                          use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \\
> @@ -201,7 +204,7 @@ sub prep () {
>                            -no-emul-boot
>                            -r);
>  
> -    my $bootfile = 'boot/grub/efi.img';
> +    $bootfile = 'boot/grub/efi.img';
>      if (!target_file_exists($ho, "$newiso/$bootfile")) {
>       $bootfile = "isolinux/isolinux.bin";
>       push @isogen_extra, qw(-c isolinux/boot.cat);

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