Your message dated Sun, 16 Nov 2014 09:19:08 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#763127: fixed in partman-efi 54 has caused the Debian Bug report #763127, regarding UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: partman-efi Version: 47 Severity: important Tags: d-i Ad originally described in [1], but no bug was ever filed to match. #695048 is related, I think. Time to file a bug about this to help track work to fix it... We have a machine with both UEFI and BIOS-mode boot available, with an existing BIOS-mode Windows installation (e.g. Windows 7 in this case) *but* the machine is set up to try and boot UEFI first and *then* fall back to BIOS (for some reason). The existing Windows installation boots via the fallback, and the user has no reason to ever investigate this. However, d-i will happily boot in UEFI mode. When we get to partitioning, there is no EFI System Partition (ESP), as Windows isn't using one. We then get to either of two potentially bad cases: (a) the user shuffles partitions around and makes an ESP, installs the system OK including grub-efi. They then have a machine that will boot via UEFI to grub, but maybe will not be able to boot Windows. I've not tested this directly yet, but I can see this happening. To get to their existing Windows installation, the user will have to switch boot mode in the firmware setup - bad. (b) the user does not make an ESP, installs a system but grub-efi fails to install properly for that reason. I'm seeing bug reports that suggest this path does *not* necessarily give a clear error to the user, maybe in some cases no error at all. They reboot their newly-installed system and find it immediately goes into Windows with no sign of their new Debian installation at all. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2014/02/msg00080.html -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.6 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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--- Begin Message ---Source: partman-efi Source-Version: 54 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of partman-efi, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive. A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [email protected], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Christian Perrier <[email protected]> (supplier of updated partman-efi package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 08:46:01 +0100 Source: partman-efi Binary: partman-efi Architecture: source i386 Version: 54 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <[email protected]> Changed-By: Christian Perrier <[email protected]> Description: partman-efi - Add to partman support for EFI System Partitions (udeb) Closes: 763127 Changes: partman-efi (54) unstable; urgency=medium . [ Steve McIntyre ] * Warn the user if we've booted in UEFI mode but we seem to have only non-UEFI existing OS installations - give them the option to switch the installer to non-UEFI mode from this point forwards so they don't break potential dual-boot setup. Closes: #763127 . [ Updated translations ] * Czech (cs.po) by Miroslav Kure * French (fr.po) by Christian Perrier * Galician (gl.po) by Jorge Barreiro * Italian (it.po) by Milo Casagrande * Japanese (ja.po) by Kenshi Muto * Portuguese (pt.po) by Miguel Figueiredo * Slovak (sk.po) by Ivan Masár * Thai (th.po) by Theppitak Karoonboonyanan * Turkish (tr.po) by Mert Dirik Checksums-Sha1: 16ba307ab51af7b165c07185d5ede6bfd94bd7d0 1685 partman-efi_54.dsc e9e9c137ebed1b723ea13da0104a76afe2089b23 59248 partman-efi_54.tar.xz 2c8a05e72f684290833d456c8f869b62774c8219 34740 partman-efi_54_i386.udeb Checksums-Sha256: a8a09711291fac2b13130d8949fd26c4b5b21183d789c3d5a58c1ac23530599d 1685 partman-efi_54.dsc 2d3b026d980abe2281aa9ead5b632281e23a5447a75c93f7e66b5fd3c91da572 59248 partman-efi_54.tar.xz 65152deedf144a350122cb78a9ad38b8ac7085aa3511eb83d30781ac88aaed3c 34740 partman-efi_54_i386.udeb Files: a93f8ea73bedc24d9becf6eb977f64ed 1685 debian-installer standard partman-efi_54.dsc 1f710f4cbfe681f4a48b26c1d7bea5a8 59248 debian-installer standard partman-efi_54.tar.xz 1f8aeae4e04378a4eece216e1d4b59b1 34740 debian-installer standard partman-efi_54_i386.udeb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIbBAEBCAAGBQJUaFuYAAoJEIcvcCxNbiWot1QP+Nb2l/IYqK/0t9KN1lkglUF9 0VfifMSeMsl0QAHHy8JSAQYd74TxOAcU5YR0/tqZqhgbkShWn7L4ENECtyyDsmON g2/49NyuksqYLWEC4cq61377bP3RMncz1GVGXtMltEo43+aOKQ5scVTEZBCV9VF6 j8rOHPHgzQCBACRNaL2YMf2yhfv1mreAUjX790y31SpGHYsfyKC+n8AtJF1IBHhX ABNN3bBb0ShmpVmVRp2sQQ1U8QadwjUuVR00Ep6YcKv4AuDDFNsuhn7Mzdqgs69L j5Mvp5B+mqWFSlsLZf/9IVeRlhZ8IpdL/AZ4Wqcysa9z+XL7/fVS6corBvLHrCQA pNXBy0JKZlrE3JJBpgjradWuKcF80ZlrbmlNIUQbjHTTZ3jxuniVRHVHLuchnwTR 3PVK2HAXEsOmjKiwU1JddFLe5kZWjGvXUUBjeEanUXsr4ExkIObOVQXqx3os/MlV NSjLYDeZqtUTyvRPDPSgciZNLvmKUDlonNJhY5NESslL/fdi24mu8Ck955fTxno7 M16AaJV4C/q50XhmM/YTeFwlQLqZ4gLnNUDKl7FA5IBa+D0BM7evbt+4iy7lL81D tIIvvAzalko28vuJTghQvS42Rv6ZTKmVdswnF7HLgEJxnyVwT9XxwPtRehGQkmBP 3xttBRxjJlUEuXlQxrA= =Mvfv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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