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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 18:14 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 06:02:12PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >I was thinking more along the lines of a yes/no question which would
> >either cause partman-efi.isinstallable to fail or not. Allowing
> >selection between the "wants to convert to EFI" and "wants to stick with
> >regular grub not grub-efi" cases.
> 
> That sounds better to me too, assuming we can sensibly do a question
> at that point. Is that allowed? I honestly don't know... :-/

It just occurred to me to look, and it seems that a handful of them do
to some extent, e.g. grub-installer's isinstallable does "db_get
grub-installer/skip".  On the other hand I don't see any uses of
db_go/db_input so it may only be usable for preseeded answers.

an


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