https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445137
Bug ID: 445137
Summary: KPM sets flags on GPT partitions with no indication
that this is happening and no option to turn it off
Product: partitionmanager
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: andr...@stikonas.eu
Reporter: ilia-k...@gmx.net
Target Milestone: ---
As the title says, KDE Partition Manager apparently sets several flags on newly
created GPT partitions, among them a "Hide from EFI" flag, which made me spend
a few hours today trying to figure out why my computer happily boots from a
live USB, but doesn't see the EFI system partition I created...
gdisk reports this as
Attribute flags: 8066000000000003
Going to gdisk's "extra functionality" and accessing the "set attributes" menu
lists the flags as
0 (system partition)
1 (hide from EFI)
49 (Undefined bit #49)
50 (Undefined bit #50)
53 (Undefined bit #53)
54 (Undefined bit #54)
63 (do not automount)
To my knowledge, KPM is the only tool doing that. Partitions created with gdisk
have absolutely no flags set, and while I have not checked gparted explicitly,
I have never had problems with unfindable EFI system partitions when I used
gparted.
Please don't set any flags by default or at least provide an option to turn
this behavior off and/or to edit the flags.
The live USB that I used to create the EFI system partition was a custom Debian
Sid image built a few days ago with KPM 21.08.0, but I've also confirmed this
behavior on a newly installed Arch system with KPM 21.08.3.
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