On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 18:54 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:26:20AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > 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? > > If that is a warning (as opposed to error) message saying something > along the lines of "note that with this setup you won't be able to boot > your current system anymore", then that isn't an actual problem. A user > who is planning to replace a system shouldn't be worried about the > installer warning them that they can't boot the (to be replaced) old > system anymore, and can safely ignore that message.
I was thinking more along the lines of a yes/no question which would either cause partman-efi.isinstallable to fail or not. Allowing selection between the "wants to convert to EFI" and "wants to stick with regular grub not grub-efi" cases. Ian. > > -- > It is easy to love a country that is famous for chocolate and beer > > -- Barack Obama, speaking in Brussels, Belgium, 2014-03-26 > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
