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Re: Bug#763127: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode



On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 10:26 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> 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?

Is isinstallable allowed to ask debconf question?

Ian.


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