On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 09:29:57PM +0200, Jorge Sanz Forcdada wrote: >Package: installation-reports >Severity: normal > >Dear Maintainer, >*** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** > > * What led up to the situation? > I wanted to install Debian in a disc with Windows 8 inside > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > ineffective)? > The guided partition created a single partition for Linux, while > in a UEFI system it is needed an EFI partition to start up. I > solved the problem by manually creating a small (36 MB) EFI > partition. > * What was the outcome of this action? > The problem was solved. Otherwise linux does not boot after > installation. > * What outcome did you expect instead? > The guided partition of the installer should prepare an EFI > partition in this kind of system, or at least warn the user to > do it manually
Hi Jorge, I must admit that I'm very surprised to see this bug report - I've written a lot of the amd64 UEFI support code in debian-installer, and it's been working just fine for me in testing. So, if you could answer a few questions for me that would help enormously in working out what's gone wrong here. 1. You say that you want to install on a disc with Windows 8 - is Windows 8 installed there already? If so, then the installer code *should* pick up on the existing EFI system partition that Windows will have created, and use it accordingly I'm guessing you didn't already have Windows 8 installed, from the information further down. If it doesn't find an exiting EFI system partition, d-i should create one itself automatically. 2. Are you *100%* sure that you booted the installer in UEFI mode? You can check this by looking at startup messages as the machine boots. If it's booting via UEFI, you'll get a cosmetic complaint from grub at early boot: "prefix not found". >Boot method: CD netinst >Image version: debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso (version 20130417) >Date: 2013-04-17, 18:00 UT (20:00 CET) > >Machine: HP Pavillion p6-2306es, Intel core i5, 6 GB RAM >Partitions: >rootfs rootfs 653954576 >156762724 463972884 26% / >udev devtmpfs 10240 > 0 10240 0% /dev >tmpfs tmpfs 608444 > 664 607780 1% /run >/dev/disk/by-uuid/23716695-21dc-4f05-8429-291f7621f862 ext4 653954576 >156762724 463972884 26% / >tmpfs tmpfs 5120 > 0 5120 0% /run/lock >tmpfs tmpfs 2466160 > 292 2465868 1% /run/shm >/dev/sda7 vfat 34260 > 117 34144 1% /boot/efi > > >Base System Installation Checklist: >[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it > >Initial boot: [O] >Detect network card: [O] >Configure network: [O] >Detect CD: [O] >Load installer modules: [O] >Clock/timezone setup: [O] >User/password setup: [O] >Detect hard drives: [O] >Partition hard drives: [E] >Install base system: [O] >Install tasks: [O] >Install boot loader: [E] >Overall install: [O] > >Comments/Problems: >- The initial partitions in the "guided partition" of the disk made > just two linux partitions, the main one and the swap. With that > scheme I did not manage to boot the system. THen I made my own > partitions, using ~36 MB for an EFI partition, plus the main > partition (where / is mounted) and the swap. That scheme worked > fine, except for... > >- The grub installed almost correctly. It enters to Debian > smoothly. But when I try to enter to Windows 8 it tells me: > > Error: unknown command 'drivemap' > Error: invalid EFI file path > > Right now I have to go through the startup menu of the Bios to > enter Windows 8. I haven't managed to solve this problem myself. OK, *this* is a known issue that I've reported myself. See http://bugs.debian.org/698914 for the bug report, and information on how to work around it. >The question of the guided partition must be solved for the UEFI >systems (I believe this should be easy), or at least a note should be >put somewhere telling how to make your own manual partition. ACK - I expect the code to already work... >- Finally, the graphics did not work correctly until I installed the > packages related to the (non-free) driver of fglrx (for AMD/ATU > Radeon HD series). Before that it displayed some graphics but > gnome3 was not able to start. OK, that's an unrelated issue.. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "I've only once written 'SQL is my bitch' in a comment. But that code is in use on a military site..." -- Simon Booth -- 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/20130422200550.ga6...@einval.com
