Hi Steve, any insight on this one?
Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> (03/12/2012): > Package: installation-reports > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > * What led up to the situation? > > The machine was delivered to me with Windows XP Professional installed, and > I must keep that on the machine, and bootable. So I booted the DVD, selected > manual partitioning, and shrunk the NTFS partition. > > In the free space left over, I created a swap partition, and then an ext4 > partition for the root file system. > > The installed told me there was "No EFI partition found". This was greatly > confusing as it is the first time I have ever heard of EFI, and I had no > way to know what I was supposed to do about it, if anything. > > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > ineffective)? > > Following advice from IRC, I rebooted the machine and found a BIOS option > to disable booting the DVD in "EFI" mode. With that disabled, the DVD > would be forced to boot in "Legacy" mode. (This BIOS did not allow me > to rearrange the order of those options, so disabling EFI was the only > choice.) > > * What was the outcome of this action? > > I rebooted the installation DVD again, and this time got a different menu. > I created the same swap and ext4 partitions in the free space, and this > time the installation proceeded without any confusing messages about EFI. > > * What outcome did you expect instead? > > 09:36 babilen> greycat: Anyway, it sounds as if you are on the right track. > I > would consider this a bug/problem with the installer btw > (forcing GPT when started via EFI even if disk is using MBR) > 09:36 babilen> greycat: Would you mind filing a bugreport/installation > report > after you are done with the installation? > > > -- Package-specific info: [stripped] Mraw, KiBi.
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