On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 06:17:32PM +0000, Leif Lindholm wrote: >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.
Patches welcome! :-P -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] Welcome my son, welcome to the machine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
