Package: debian-installer Severity: serious Justification: causes data loss (in a way) Dear Maintainer,I recently installed Debian in a second partition (for testing purposes) on an UEFI system. The installer didn't ask, whether or not to install grub/an UEFI entry, instead it happily overwrote the existing debian UEFI entry for the other partition. :( To repair this, I had to boot with the help of the super-grub2-disk, load the grub.cfg from the other partition and run grub-install.
It would be great, if the installer just created a debian2 (or similar) entry, when a debian entry is already found, but it should at least ask before overwriting anything.
Maybe it didn't prompt any question, because lilo could not be installed anyway, as the following message occured multiple times during install: lilo-installer: LILO not usable on EFI PCs without BIOS compatibility; use grub-efi
Maybe it never checks for an existing UEFI installation?The relevant part of syslog with respect to the grub installation is attached.
I used the installer from [1], last modified at 2013-12-30 07:48. Best regards, Andreas1: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-CD-1.iso
-- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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