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Hi Steve Thanks for your help. Yes, I was surprised of this problem because I did not see anything in the release notes, despite of having some information on the UEFI issues. Let me extend a bit more on the process followed: The PC came with Windows 8 pre-installed. That implies also a recovery partition, so grub now "offers" two Windows starts: one for normal Windows, one for the recovery partition (I guess this is standard). Anyway, I tried to boot from the installation CD of squeeze. I had to do that through the "legacy" mode and deactivated the "secure booting" just in case. d-i did not notice that there were EFI partitions, and installed linux in the space I freed from the disk. No need to mention that I could not boot the linux partition even from the legacy mode. Then I decided to move on to Wheezy. I "formatted" the linux partition to prepare the new installation (see below) El 22/04/13 22:05, Steve McIntyre escribió: On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 09:29:57PM +0200, Jorge Sanz Forcdada wrote:Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Hi Jorge, I must admit that I'm very surprised to see this bug report - I've written a lot of the amd64 UEFI support code in debian-installer, and it's been working just fine for me in testing. So, if you could answer a few questions for me that would help enormously in working out what's gone wrong here. 1. You say that you want to install on a disc with Windows 8 - is Windows 8 installed there already? If so, then the installer code *should* pick up on the existing EFI system partition that Windows will have created, and use it accordingly I'm guessing you didn't already have Windows 8 installed, from the information further down. If it doesn't find an exiting EFI system partition, d-i should create one itself automatically. Yes, Windows 8 was installed before. When I tried the first installation of Wheezy the bios only showed the UEFI Windows boot (and the linux CD too), so I could not boot the new linux installation and decided to repeat the installation preparing a new EFI partition. The debian installer saw the Windows EFI partition already present in the disk before installation. Besides, I think it recognized (?!) the former linux squeeze partition as an EFI partition (not 100% sure of this). I must say that during the whole process I kept a doubt about a partition of 1 MB that I believe was created by squeeze, but I prefered not to delete it just in case it was a bios thing (it still there, it does not bother :-) ). 2. Are you *100%* sure that you booted the installer in UEFI mode? You can check this by looking at startup messages as the machine boots. If it's booting via UEFI, you'll get a cosmetic complaint from grub at early boot: "prefix not found". I believe so. I certainly had that intention, and I don't think the d-i would have seen the former partitions as EFI if booting in legacy mode, right? I remember to see that weird message "prefix not found", but I do not remember in which boot. I am sorry I could nto send this report before, I would have this information more fresh in my mind. I hope it helps, but if you do not receive any similar report it may have to do with the two trials of installation before the succesful one. Thanks for pointing about the other bug on the grub not booting the Windows 8. I will fix it now. I agree with you that the graphics issue is not related, I just mentioned it just in case somebody wants to insist in the installation docs (I think it is written already) about the need of using non-free packages to make some graphic cards to work. Newbies use to be discouraged of using Debian because of this kind of things Thanks again. Please let me know if I can help further. Jorge Boot method: CD netinst Image version: debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso (version 20130417) Date: 2013-04-17, 18:00 UT (20:00 CET) Machine: HP Pavillion p6-2306es, Intel core i5, 6 GB RAM Partitions: rootfs rootfs 653954576 156762724 463972884 26% / udev devtmpfs 10240 0 10240 0% /dev tmpfs tmpfs 608444 664 607780 1% /run /dev/disk/by-uuid/23716695-21dc-4f05-8429-291f7621f862 ext4 653954576 156762724 463972884 26% / tmpfs tmpfs 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock tmpfs tmpfs 2466160 292 2465868 1% /run/shm /dev/sda7 vfat 34260 117 34144 1% /boot/efi Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [O] Detect network card: [O] Configure network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Clock/timezone setup: [O] User/password setup: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [E] Install base system: [O] Install tasks: [O] Install boot loader: [E] Overall install: [O] Comments/Problems:- The initial partitions in the "guided partition" of the disk made just two linux partitions, the main one and the swap. With that scheme I did not manage to boot the system. THen I made my own partitions, using ~36 MB for an EFI partition, plus the main partition (where / is mounted) and the swap. That scheme worked fine, except for... - The grub installed almost correctly. It enters to Debian smoothly. But when I try to enter to Windows 8 it tells me: Error: unknown command 'drivemap' Error: invalid EFI file path Right now I have to go through the startup menu of the Bios to enter Windows 8. I haven't managed to solve this problem myself.OK, *this* is a known issue that I've reported myself. See http://bugs.debian.org/698914 for the bug report, and information on how to work around it.The question of the guided partition must be solved for the UEFI systems (I believe this should be easy), or at least a note should be put somewhere telling how to make your own manual partition.ACK - I expect the code to already work...- Finally, the graphics did not work correctly until I installed the packages related to the (non-free) driver of fglrx (for AMD/ATU Radeon HD series). Before that it displayed some graphics but gnome3 was not able to start.OK, that's an unrelated issue.. |