bart...@vrielink.net wrote: >On 24-11-12 20:07, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> If you're only being offered grub-pc, then you've booted already in >> BIOS mode. If you'd booted in EFI mode, the installer would only be >> offering grub-efi and would set up using GPT partitions by default. > >Are you sure? I have to admit that this is the first time I've >encountered EFI (my current laptop is 5 years old), but I see in the >"BIOS" under the "Boot" tab options such as "Add New Boot Option" for >which the context help explicitly mentions EFI. I also do not have an >option (or at least, I cannot find it) to revert to the old way of booting.
Maybe it's doing implicit fallback if it doesn't like something about the EFI boot setup we've done. There's a lot of variation in how BIOSes behave... :-( If you've booted in EFI mode, then the installer code I wrote should be offering GPT etc. When you boot the installer on your system, do you see a grub boot menu or an isolinux boot menu? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e1tcmdn-0007oj...@mail.einval.com
