On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:11:06PM +0200, Jorge Sanz Forcada wrote: >Hi Steve > >Thanks for your help. Yes, I was surprised of this problem because I >did not see anything in the release notes, despite of having some >information on the UEFI issues. Let me extend a bit more on the >process followed: > >The PC came with Windows 8 pre-installed. That implies also a >recovery partition, so grub now "offers" two Windows starts: one for >normal Windows, one for the recovery partition (I guess this is >standard). Anyway, I tried to boot from the installation CD of >squeeze. I had to do that through the "legacy" mode and deactivated >the "secure booting" just in case. d-i did not notice that there were >EFI partitions, and installed linux in the space I freed from the >disk. No need to mention that I could not boot the linux partition >even from the legacy mode. Then I decided to move on to Wheezy. I >"formatted" the linux partition to prepare the new installation (see >below)
Ah... If you've set things up initially using squeeze, that may explain things... :-/ Squeeze didn't have any EFI support at all for amd64. Unless you deleted all the newly-created partitions and started again using the Wheezy installer, it will not have attempted to create the partition layout it needed. >El 22/04/13 22:05, Steve McIntyre escribió: >>On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 09:29:57PM +0200, Jorge Sanz Forcdada wrote: >>>Package: installation-reports >>>Severity: normal >>> >>> >>>Hi Jorge, >>> >>>I must admit that I'm very surprised to see this bug report - I've >>>written a lot of the amd64 UEFI support code in debian-installer, and >>>it's been working just fine for me in testing. So, if you could answer >>>a few questions for me that would help enormously in working out >>>what's gone wrong here. >>> >>>1. You say that you want to install on a disc with Windows 8 - is >>> Windows 8 installed there already? If so, then the installer code >>> *should* pick up on the existing EFI system partition that Windows >>> will have created, and use it accordingly I'm guessing you didn't >>> already have Windows 8 installed, from the information further >>> down. >>> >>> If it doesn't find an exiting EFI system partition, d-i should >>> create one itself automatically. > >Yes, Windows 8 was installed before. When I tried the first >installation of Wheezy the bios only showed the UEFI Windows boot >(and the linux CD too), so I could not boot the new linux >installation and decided to repeat the installation preparing a new >EFI partition. The debian installer saw the Windows EFI partition >already present in the disk before installation. Besides, I think it >recognized (?!) the former linux squeeze partition as an EFI >partition (not 100% sure of this). It most likely would be shown as a GPT partition, but most likely *not* EFI. >I must say that during the whole process I kept a doubt about a >partition of 1 MB that I believe was created by squeeze, but I >prefered not to delete it just in case it was a bios thing (it >still there, it does not bother :-) ). Right. >>>2. Are you *100%* sure that you booted the installer in UEFI mode? You >>> can check this by looking at startup messages as the machine >>> boots. If it's booting via UEFI, you'll get a cosmetic complaint >>> from grub at early boot: "prefix not found". > >I believe so. I certainly had that intention, and I don't think the >d-i would have seen the former partitions as EFI if booting in legacy >mode, right?I remember to see that weird message "prefix not found", >but I do not remember in which boot. I am sorry I could nto send this >report before, I would have this information more fresh in my mind. >I hope it helps, but if you do not receive any similar report it may >have to do with the two trials of installation before the succesful >one. Yes, I think so. If you're prepared to delete your existing Debian installation and try again from scratch using Wheezy, that's more likely to work. But I understand if you don't want to spend the time on that now...! >Thanks for pointing about the other bug on the grub not booting the >Windows 8. I will fix it now. Cool, glad to help here. :-) >I agree with you that the graphics issue is not related, I just >mentioned it just in case somebody wants to insist in the >installation docs (I think it is written already) about the need of >using non-free packages to make some graphic cards to work. Newbies >use to be discouraged of using Debian because of this kind of things Yup. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "Every time you use Tcl, God kills a kitten." -- Malcolm Ray -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org