-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am attempting to install Debian Wheezy onto my new Toshiba Satellite S855-S5378 laptop using the beta4 debian-installer (I've tried the DVD images and the netinst images on USB and CD).
When I boot debian-installer in Compatibility Support Module (CSM) mode, the installer runs fine. However, it would install grub in BIOS mode. I need it to be in UEFI mode to allow dual booting Windows 8 (which came pre-installed). When I boot the debian-installer in UEFI mode, however, I just get a flash of: Welcome to Grub! Error: "prefix" not set. then the screen is all scrambled. It appears as though a smaller horizontal resolution is being used and the scan lines are just being appended to each other. So, image is squished to the stop ~40% of the screen and the image is illegible. Is this a UEFI issue or a Grub issue? Any ideas on how I should proceed? I've noticed that newer versions of grub has a commit (revno: 4412) to "Reject invalid resolutions" in efi_gop.c. I'm not familiar with either either UEFI or Grub code, but that sounds promising to me. I've checked out and compiled the debian-installer code. Would updating Grub to 2.00 be difficult or have bad consequences? If this would be the thing to do, I'd appreciate a pointer on how to build netinst images from the compiled debian-installer; I can't seem to find anything on how to do that. Thanks! - - Keith -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlCyutkACgkQmuZlGCxCU2VH7wCgvY21nWmXOw1kPA1tzs7YD1F4 RSQAoN3rPOFhzuEfqvmljhUWBNKpvcOP =sHze -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/50b2bad9.3080...@keithmoyer.com
