On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 06:53:30AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: >Quoting Phillip Susi (ps...@ubuntu.com): >> >> Recently a new message was added to d-i: >> >> This machine's firmware has started the installer in UEFI mode but >> it looks like there may be existing operating systems already >> installed using "BIOS compatibility mode". If you >> continue to install Debian in UEFI mode, it might be difficult to >> reboot the machine into any BIOS-mode operating systems later. >> >> Please consider replacing "Debian" with `lsb_release -si` or similar >> so that people installing other distros based on debian don't get a >> message about a different operating system than the one they are >> installing. > >Doh. That one escaped my attention when this message was added. > >We usually avoid hardcoding "Debian" and this is probably one of the >very rare cases where we failed. The message was added in a bit of a >hurry recently and that failed to be catched by the review....:-(
ACK. Sorry, my fault guys. :-( >Sadly, I'd prefer us not to change this now.....as it will require >Yet Another Round of translation updates....which takes weeks to >achieve. > >I'd prefer something like "If you continue to install in UEFI >mode, it might be difficult to reboot the machine into any BIOS-mode >operating systems later" and avoid "the distro" or anything like >that. The output of "lsb_release -si" is likely to not work. Works for me, yeah. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "I can't ever sleep on planes ... call it irrational if you like, but I'm afraid I'll miss my stop" -- Vivek Dasmohapatra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
