Re: Bug#763127: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 08:46:41PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 07:50:38PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>>On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 06:14:30PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>> That sounds better to me too, assuming we can sensibly do a question
>>> at that point. Is that allowed? I honestly don't know... :-/
>>
>>While isinstallable scripts can talk to debconf, they should not ask
>>questions, as main-menu will run the isinstallable script for a given
>>package potentially many times. Also, partman-efi isn't a main-menu
>>item so any isinstallable script added to it will never be run.
>
>Right. Thanks for warning before we spend too much time on that
>option! :-/
>
>So, back to other options I guess.
I'm hacking on init.d/efi, and it looks like it might do what we
need. We can remember a decision taken (choose not to do EFI
installation), but we'll need to update either all the places that
currently check if we're an EFI platform or the core
libdebian-installer code to look for a flag file or similar...
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
"When C++ is your hammer, everything looks like a thumb." -- Steven M. Haflich
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