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bug#44027: [PATCH] installer: Create bios_grub partition when it is need


From: Mathieu Othacehe
Subject: bug#44027: [PATCH] installer: Create bios_grub partition when it is needed.
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 12:48:07 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux)

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.

Mathieu





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