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Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?



On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 08:33:26AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 11:01:22 +0000
> "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > Bug??: DI incorrectly detected this machine as having EFI.
> > >   
> > 
> > At the beginning? Did you get presented with the UEFI install and did
> > it try to install grub-efi at the end (or did it just ask whether you
> > wanted to install grub in the efi fallback path - which is normal
> 
> The latter. But why even ask about the EFI backup path if there is no
> EFI??
> 
Because that's a default "if all else fails look here" location, perhaps?

It doesn't make a lot of difference: grub is installed as more or less the
last step in installation anyway.

There are bits of deep magic if you want to convert a machine that's been
installed using Legacy Boot to one using UEFI - but it's not straightforward.

All best,

Andy C

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