On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 08:48:11AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 02:28:06AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> If the user wants to continue, we could even suggest blanking the >> partition table(s) and starting again with GPT, but I don't think >> we currently have a "blank partition table" option exposed within >> d-i? >> >> What do people think of this plan? What have I missed? > >Isn't it better to run this test in partman-efi's isinstallable script? >Then if things are set up in the described way, grub-efi just won't be >installed, but the normal grub will, and the system will continue to >boot in BIOS fallback as before.
That was my initial thought, but then someone pointed out: what happens to a user who explicitly *wants* to replace their existing legacy system with a new UEFI one? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140928092620.gi12...@einval.com
