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Re: Install debian on EFI hw



Le 04/03/2014 14:54, ha a écrit :
> Last few weekends I've tried to install debian 7.2 from live DVD (but
> booting from USB) on EFI hardware with GPT. I disabled EFI, crated a
> small partition at the begging of the disk, and run the usual
> installation process. However, at the end of installation I always
> receive the message like: "Grub-pc package failed to install into
> /target/".
>
> Now, I solved this by booting to rescue mode, doing grub-install, chroot
> into the instaled system and simply update grub. However, I found this
> solution suboptimal when compared to classical debian installation
> (utilizing MBR). So I wonder if anybody had experience on how to avoid
> this recue-grub_install-chroot-grub_update procedure?
>
> Did anybody manage to automatically install debian on GPT?
> Did anybody do it without disabling EFI (grub-efi perhaps)?
> Or the only way to have the automated install is stick with MBR?
>
> Thanks to anybody who cares.
>
>

I installed with GPT and EFI, but I do not remember if I used a testing
or a stable image. It worked without problem, except I had to create a
EFI partition /boot/efi


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