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We use ef02 for the BIOS boot partition on MBR/DOS. This is incorrect. The BIOS boot partition on MBR is actually not required. We may keep it for consistency (probably not the right thing to do) and, if we do, we should change the type.
Type changed to 00 empty, but it's still partitioned space.
When a fs_type is missing, the error message is not helpful: invalid partitioning customizations: unknown or invalid filesystem type for mountpoint "/var" We should somehow mention that the field is called fs_type.
MBR gap has few technical problems. There is no way to reserve space in the embedding area with complete safety, and some proprietary software is known to use it to make it difficult for users to work around licensing restrictions. GRUB works around it by detecting sectors by other software and avoiding them and protecting its own sectors using Reed-Solomon encoding.
GRUB team recommends having MBR gap of at least 1000 KiB.
We currently make a 1 MiB bios boot partition for dos/mbr disks the same way we do for gpt. This limits the usefulness of dos/mbr disks which is already limited to 4 partitions, essentially making it only 3 usable partitions in cases where BIOS booting is needed. We should instead use a gap as described in the docs.
ef02
for the BIOS boot partition on MBR/DOS. This is incorrect. The BIOS boot partition on MBR is actually not required. We may keep it for consistency (probably not the right thing to do) and, if we do, we should change the type.00
empty, but it's still partitioned space.ef00
for ESP on DOS toef
.fs_type
is missing, the error message is not helpful:invalid partitioning customizations: unknown or invalid filesystem type for mountpoint "/var"
We should somehow mention that the field is calledfs_type
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