On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 06:02:12PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >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.
That sounds better to me too, assuming we can sensibly do a question at that point. Is that allowed? I honestly don't know... :-/ -- 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-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140928171430.gk12...@einval.com