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Add option "--no-bootloader": this option disable the installation of the EFI packages #107

Closed 51CGO closed 4 years ago

51CGO commented 4 years ago

Hi,

I added the option "--no-botloader" to the live-installer. This option only disable the installation of the grub-efi-* packages. This is useful for users like me that ran into a system freeze when theose packages are installed by the installer.

51CGO commented 4 years ago

See issue: https://github.com/linuxmint/live-installer/issues/105

clefebvre commented 4 years ago

Hi @crigoda, that option is there already in the UI. Why do you need it to be set via console?

51CGO commented 4 years ago

Hi clefebre,

Well, the origin of my problem is that the UI option only disable GRUB configuration "grub-install" ~line 627 in installer.py. But this don't disable the installation of the bootloader packages ~ line 118 in installer.py. The installed packages are the following: pool/main/g/grub2/grub-efi pool/main/g/grub-efi-amd64-signed/ pool/main/s/shim/ and this is the grub-efi-amd64 package postinst that made my system freeze.

Searching for a solution, I found that Ubuntu/Mint has a --no-bootloader option but this was absent from LDME. As this option disable completly the bootloader packages installation, not only grub configuration, I think this is a very expert option.

clefebvre commented 4 years ago

Shouldn't we just make the UI option disable both instead?

51CGO commented 4 years ago

It's another good solution. Do you prefer this way ? If yes, I can make te change and test it. Do you think the text of UI option should be updated ?

mtwebster commented 4 years ago

I don't think any label needs to be updated. I more or less consider these things all the same concept, and disabling it should disable all of it.