On Sun 27 Dec 2020 at 22:10:53 (+0000), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 08:33:26AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 11:01:22 +0000 "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > > > > > > > > Bug??: DI incorrectly detected this machine as having EFI. > > > > > > > At the beginning? Did you get presented with the UEFI install and did > > > it try to install grub-efi at the end (or did it just ask whether you > > > wanted to install grub in the efi fallback path - which is normal > > > > The latter. But why even ask about the EFI backup path if there is no > > EFI?? > > > Because that's a default "if all else fails look here" location, perhaps?
As I was offered this screen even on my 2000 PentiumIII/Seattle2 PC, I've always assumed that the d-i was led astray by the fact that the ISO is itself UEFI-aware. > It doesn't make a lot of difference: grub is installed as more or less the > last step in installation anyway. And better to give you a screen you don't need rather than not give you one that you do need. > There are bits of deep magic if you want to convert a machine that's been > installed using Legacy Boot to one using UEFI - but it's not straightforward. What would be the benefit of UEFI booting on a machine that can already BIOS boot? The reason I ask is because I have recently wiped Windows from a laptop that booted Windows with UEFI, but linux with the BIOS. Any reason to change? Cheers, David.