Re: problem installing trixie - no EFI
On Thu 17 Jul 2025 at 12:42:29 (+0200), Flo wrote:
> I tried to reinstall: This time I said guided partitioning the whole
> disk but it only creates a 1M partiion for biosgrub and a big one
> (3TB) for everything else (+ swap). I have EFI enabled in BIOS and
> it's not the first time I install Debian on this machine and it
> created a EFI partition last time. Also when I chose the use of the
> partion, there is no entry with EFI or ESP.
>
> For me it looks like that the installer thinks that I am on a non EFI
> system?
That's a very simple thing to answer: if you're in EFI mode,
there will be a directory /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/
with files in it. In BIOS mode, there won't.
In the installer, you'll need to open a shell with Alt-F2
and take a look.
> PS: the keyboard & mouse problem disappeared after another reinstall,
> but booting is only possible over the BIOS menu.
Like John Doe, no idea what this means.
Cheers,
David.
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