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 │ │ 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. │ │ │ │ │ │ If you wish to install in UEFI mode and don't care about keeping the │ │ │ ability to boot one of the existing systems, you have the option to │ │ │ force that here. If you wish to keep the option to boot an existing │ │ │ operating system, you should choose NOT to force UEFI installation │ └│ here. │ │ │ │ Force UEFI installation? │ ---
Since there never existed a "BIOS compatibility mode" on arm64, this message is quite misleading. Could we simply suppress this message on non-x86? Lack of an EFI system partition would make itself known later on anyway. -- 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/CAF7UmSzk85ScNz7MvfNz+_ELver6TQN_5VPXNsKRuuNW=j6...@mail.gmail.com