wic: efi-plus-pcbios: mark /boot partition as EF00 for UEFI detection

Message ID 20251219172940.2655470-1-badrikesh.prusty@siemens.com
State Accepted, archived
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Series wic: efi-plus-pcbios: mark /boot partition as EF00 for UEFI detection | expand

Commit Message

Badrikesh Prusty Dec. 19, 2025, 5:29 p.m. UTC
- Added --part-type EF00 to the /boot partition so UEFI firmware
  recognizes it as an EFI System Partition.
- Legacy BIOS unaffected because partition remains active and vfat

Signed-off-by: Badrikesh Prusty <badrikesh.prusty@siemens.com>
---
 meta-isar/scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/efi-plus-pcbios.wks | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Anton Mikanovich Dec. 23, 2025, 7:56 a.m. UTC | #1
19/12/2025 19:29, 'Badrikesh Prusty' via isar-users wrote:
> - Added --part-type EF00 to the /boot partition so UEFI firmware
>    recognizes it as an EFI System Partition.
> - Legacy BIOS unaffected because partition remains active and vfat
>
> Signed-off-by: Badrikesh Prusty <badrikesh.prusty@siemens.com>
Applied to next, thanks.

Patch

diff --git a/meta-isar/scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/efi-plus-pcbios.wks b/meta-isar/scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/efi-plus-pcbios.wks
index 220df99d..50807a41 100644
--- a/meta-isar/scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/efi-plus-pcbios.wks
+++ b/meta-isar/scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/efi-plus-pcbios.wks
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ 
 # Example to show how to create an efi + pcbios image
 # Note, that the loader argument is mandatory. But systemd-boot also works.
-part /boot --source bootimg-biosplusefi-isar --sourceparams="loader=grub-efi" --label boot --active --align 1024 --use-uuid
+part /boot --source bootimg-biosplusefi-isar --sourceparams="loader=grub-efi" --label boot --part-type EF00 --active --align 1024 --use-uuid
 part / --source rootfs --fstype=ext4 --mkfs-extraopts "-T default" --label platform --align 1024 --use-uuid --exclude-path=boot
 
 bootloader --ptable gpt --timeout 3 --append "rootwait console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0"