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Re: Trying to install Wheezy on an Asus Zenbook UX32VD



bartjan@vrielink.net wrote:
>On 24-11-12 20:07, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> If you're only being offered grub-pc, then you've booted already in
>> BIOS mode. If you'd booted in EFI mode, the installer would only be
>> offering grub-efi and would set up using GPT partitions by default.
>
>Are you sure? I have to admit that this is the first time I've 
>encountered EFI (my current laptop is 5 years old), but I see in the 
>"BIOS" under the "Boot" tab options such as "Add New Boot Option" for 
>which the context help explicitly mentions EFI. I also do not have an 
>option (or at least, I cannot find it) to revert to the old way of booting.

Maybe it's doing implicit fallback if it doesn't like something about
the EFI boot setup we've done. There's a lot of variation in how
BIOSes behave... :-( If you've booted in EFI mode, then the installer
code I wrote should be offering GPT etc.

When you boot the installer on your system, do you see a grub boot
menu or an isolinux boot menu?

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
"We're the technical experts.  We were hired so that management could
 ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs."  -- Mike Andrews


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