Re: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 08:48:11AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 02:28:06AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> If the user wants to continue, we could even suggest blanking the
>> partition table(s) and starting again with GPT, but I don't think
>> we currently have a "blank partition table" option exposed within
>> d-i?
>>
>> What do people think of this plan? What have I missed?
>
>Isn't it better to run this test in partman-efi's isinstallable script?
>Then if things are set up in the described way, grub-efi just won't be
>installed, but the normal grub will, and the system will continue to
>boot in BIOS fallback as before.
That was my initial thought, but then someone pointed out: what
happens to a user who explicitly *wants* to replace their existing
legacy system with a new UEFI one?
--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
"...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user'
as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead
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