Bug#746662: add install-time option to place grub-efi in removable media path

Package: debian-installer Version: 20140316 Severity: wishlist There are many platforms out there with broken UEFI implementations. It would be useful to in the UEFI installer have a way of instructing the installer to place GRUB in the "removable media loader path" (as defined by the UEFI specifi

Bug#773311: confusing dialogue on lack of EFI system partition on non-x86

Package: partman-efi Severity: wishlist When attempting to install Jessie (daily snapshot from today) on arm64, with an already partitioned disk without an EFI System Partition, the following dialogue appears: --- │ This machine's firmware has started the installer in UEFI mode but it │ │ look

Bug#773311: Suggested fix

Tags: patch The attached patch restricts the dialog to i386/amd64 platforms, and additionally enables to EFI System Partition size check for all platforms (where UEFI had been identified as present). 0001-UEFI-partitioning-fixes-for-non-x86.patch Description: Binary data

Bug#883580: debian-installer: arm64: please ship dtb files

X-Debbugs-CC: glik...@secretlab.ca Please don't ship dtb files at all, including the kernel images. If firmware does not come with hardware description, that is a shortcoming of the firmware. If a newer kernel cannot be booted with an existing device tree, then that is a bug and the kernel should

Bug#547175: Reproduced on Sun Fire v490/Wheezy

Installed from the 30th of July 2012 DVD ISO. Same workaround was successful - drop to a shell, manually copy firmware across and reload modules.