On 2013-12-31 10:23:18, Luca Capello wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 15:50:39 +0100, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
>> On 2013-12-31 05:45:01, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
>> Yeah... I struggled with that before, and I *was* able to make it work,
>> but since it wasn't obvious this was necessary *during* the installer, I
>> did a normal MBR-based partitionning. When the boot loader failed to
>> install, I didn't want to go back and redo everything, especially since
>> this is a dual-boot system and I was happy to have been able to resize
>> the NTFS partition at all... ;)
>
> Sorry, but there is something strange here. In the first email you
> reported that "when I rebooted, grub was not installed in the MBR and I
> was brought back into windows", which means that partman used the
> partition table already present. This can be checked with a simple
> `fdisk -l /dev/sda`: if there is no GPT mention, then the partition
> table is plain old MBR.
>
> BTW, Windows 7 does not mandate GPT nor UEFI, but can use both.
Oh right - I used the original partitionning I guess. I assumed it was
MBR.
>> Shouldn't we create GPT partitions all the time now anyways?
>
> Why? IMHO if there is no need for it (because BIOS is used) plain old
> MBR is easier.
The reason is that it will fail on newer BIOS, from what I can tell.
>>> Last but not least, you have to select the UEFI:USB in the firmware
>>> and not BIOS:USB, which every firmware has a different marking scheme
>>> for, but disabling legacy-bios (or equivalent option) in the UEFI
>>> BIOS, should always disable the BIOS:USB option. (It can be enabled
>>> again after installation.)
>>
>> Right, I guess this is the tricky bit. It seems that in any case, the
>> user needs to go fiddle in the BIOS, which is annoying. In my case, I
>> was able to install by *disabling* UEFI in the BIOS, but the reverse
>> might be the case for others.
>
> No need to fiddle in the BIOS if you simply use UEFI (d-i supports it).
That would imply reformatting the whole drive and destroying all the
data, from what I understand. Unless d-i can convert a MBR partition to
GPT?
A.
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