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elilo-installer package

grim and horrible efi_boot.list generation unsurprisingly breaks

Bug #38232 reported by Colin Watson on 2006-04-05

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	elilo-installer (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Colin Watson

Bug Description

elilo-installer.postinst has some awful code to parse the (human-readable) output of parted and figure out which devices are EFI boot partitions. This currently breaks because /dev/discs/disc0/disc is in fact a symlink to /dev/sda, and it can't cope with the non-devfs partition names. We probably need to throw away this whole piece of code and replace it with something that uses partconf-find-partitions or similar.

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Bryan Stillwell (bryan-stillwell) wrote on 2006-05-21: Patch to elilo-installer.postinst to work on ia64

Patch to elilo-installer.postinst to work on ia64 Edit (890 bytes, text/plain)

Here's my attempt to fix the ugly code you mentioned in elilo-installer.postinst. I've tested it with the ia64 daily cd image of dapper (20060521) and it works great for me.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2006-05-22:

Thanks for the patch! I've adjusted it very slightly (used find-partitions --flag rather than -f, removed unnecessary parentheses, changed 'dev' to 'part' for clarity, and fixed up dependencies), but otherwise:

elilo-installer (1.5ubuntu3) dapper; urgency=low

* Use partconf-find-partitions rather than trying and failing to parse the
output of parted (thanks, Bryan Stillwell; closes: Malone #38232).

-- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 22 May 2006 11:18:09 +0100