On 24-11-12 21:47, Steve McIntyre wrote:
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?
At first I used the mini.iso file. That one only showed an isolinux (I
assume, I did not recognize it as grub) option. With that one, I
eventually managed to do a test-install using "classic" grub2. However,
the installer tries to install to /dev/sda, which is the USB stick I
booted from. Please try to make it smart enough to pick /dev/sdb (which
I did manually).
Now I'm trying with the disk1 iso copied to another USB disk. This time
it manages to complete the installation without any issues, but fails to
boot. After grub, I do get the following at bootup:
Loading Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 ...
Loading initial ramdisk ...
error: no suitable mode found.
Booting however
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