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?