Bug#821341: debian-installer: unbootable, no gpt partition for uefi install

2016-04-21 Thread josh
Hi Steve, thanks for your reply. On 20.04.2016 02:23, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > Section 5.2 in UEFI 2.5 > (http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI%202_5.pdf) > deals with UEFI and MBR, and specifcally lists supporting an ESP with > partition type 0xEF. You are right! The even mor

Bug#821341: debian-installer: unbootable, no gpt partition for uefi install

2016-04-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Josh, On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 10:33:31PM +0200, josh wrote: >Hi Steve, > >thanks for your reply. > >> It depends very much on the machine involved, to be honest - many will >> boot UEFI from appropriately partitioned MBR-partitioned disks. It >> depends very much on the firmware of the machine

Bug#821341: debian-installer: unbootable, no gpt partition for uefi install

2016-04-18 Thread josh
Hi Steve, thanks for your reply. > It depends very much on the machine involved, to be honest - many will > boot UEFI from appropriately partitioned MBR-partitioned disks. It > depends very much on the firmware of the machine here. hmmm...I didn't wade through the 1000+ page UEFI specs myself, b

Bug#821341: debian-installer: unbootable, no gpt partition for uefi install

2016-04-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
Control: merge -1 821340 Control: reassign 821340 partman-efi Control: retitle 821340 partman-efi: add extra warning about preferring GPT for USE installation Hi Josh, I'm merging this with your other bug report - they're clearly the same issue. On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 10:37:53PM +0200, josh wr

Processed (with 1 error): Re: Bug#821341: debian-installer: unbootable, no gpt partition for uefi install

2016-04-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > merge -1 821340 Bug #821341 [debian-installer] debian-installer: unbootable, no gpt partition for uefi install Unable to merge bugs because: severity of #821340 is 'normal' not 'important' package of #821340 is 'installation-reports' not 'debian-installer' Failed to

Bug#821341: debian-installer: unbootable, no gpt partition for uefi install

2016-04-17 Thread josh
Package: debian-installer Severity: important After installation system was not bootable. During the installation it said that it had detected that I had UEFI booted the installation CD and proposed to make an EFI boot partion which I accepted. However, after installation, Debian wasn't bootable.