[OE-core] [PATCH] mkefidisk.sh: create a proper ESP

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.thruhere.net
Mon Mar 18 15:23:55 UTC 2013


The script was creating a FAT fs with EFI files in it, but wasn't setting the GPT GUID.

Using 'gummiboot install' natively failed because of the missing GPT GUID, so fix that. While we're there also set the name to "EFI System Partition".

Signed-off-by: Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net>
Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhart at linux.intel.com>
---
 scripts/contrib/mkefidisk.sh | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/contrib/mkefidisk.sh b/scripts/contrib/mkefidisk.sh
index 44ac130..b7db0a9 100755
--- a/scripts/contrib/mkefidisk.sh
+++ b/scripts/contrib/mkefidisk.sh
@@ -166,6 +166,14 @@ parted $DEVICE mklabel gpt
 echo "Creating boot partition on $BOOTFS"
 parted $DEVICE mkpart primary 0% $BOOT_SIZE
 
+# GPT doesn't have a real boot flag, parted will change the GUID to EFI System Partition, 
+# which is what we want
+echo "Enabling boot flag on $BOOTFS"
+parted $DEVICE set 1 boot on
+
+echo "Labeling $BOOTFS as EFI System Partition"
+parted $DEVICE name 1 "EFI System Partition"
+
 echo "Creating ROOTFS partition on $ROOTFS"
 parted $DEVICE mkpart primary $ROOTFS_START $ROOTFS_END
 
-- 
1.8.1.4





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