Control: severity -1 normal On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 11:38:28PM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: >Package: debian-installer >Severity: serious >Justification: causes data loss (in a way)
Sorry, not convinced. >I recently installed Debian in a second partition (for testing >purposes) on an UEFI system. The installer didn't ask, whether or not >to install grub/an UEFI entry, instead it happily overwrote the >existing debian UEFI entry for the other partition. :( To repair >this, I had to boot with the help of the super-grub2-disk, load the >grub.cfg from the other partition and run grub-install. > >It would be great, if the installer just created a debian2 (or >similar) entry, when a debian entry is already found, but it should >at least ask before overwriting anything. I think a better way to do this would be to add an extra grub menu entry for the other installation; the namespace for UEFI is not designed to work with multiple entries like this AFAICS. >Maybe it didn't prompt any question, because lilo could not be >installed anyway, as the following message occured multiple times >during install: >lilo-installer: LILO not usable on EFI PCs without BIOS >compatibility; use grub-efi That's just a leftover debug message from the lilo-installer udeb - it's just indicative of d-i checking several times which bootloader to use. You can safely ignore that. >Maybe it never checks for an existing UEFI installation? No, it doesn't check for an existing *Debian* UEFI installation. The setup will try to automatically re-use an existing EFI System Partition if it finds one, and add Debian's boot files there. Did you explicitly set up a separate ESP on another disk, or similar? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the cable, one on the far end, and the goat, terminated over the SCSI chain with a silver-handled knife whilst burning *black* candles. --- Anthony DeBoer -- 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/20140103231700.gp8...@einval.com
