Re: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub

2015-10-21 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 03:31:49PM -0700, ray wrote: > Reco, > > Thank you for the info. Can you suggest how this can help resolve the issue? Install either grub-efi-amd64 or grub-efi-ia32 (not both, choose one of these according to UEFI used in the laptop). Disable BIOS

Re: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub

2015-10-20 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 06:41:51PM -0700, ray wrote: > It is my understanding that UEFI is appropriate for systems with HDD > 2TB. UEFI has nothing to do with the disk size. GPT, on the other hand, does. And yes, you can force BIOS to boot from GPT-labeled drive. Reco

Re: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub

2015-10-20 Thread ray
Reco, Thank you for the info. Can you suggest how this can help resolve the issue?

Re: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub

2015-10-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
control-alt-f7 gets you back to graphical mode. On Sun, 18 Oct 2015, ray wrote: Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:17:52 From: ray To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub Resent-Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 00:36:09 + (UTC) Resent-From:

Re: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub

2015-10-19 Thread Felix Miata
ray composed on 2015-10-19 18:46 (UTC-0700): > Jude DaShiell composed on 2015-10-19 04:48 (UTC-0400): >> control-alt-f7 gets you back to graphical mode. > The system does not respond to cntrl-alt-f7 > Just to clarigy, the system is at the grub prompt in a CSM boot. > The BIOS has two

Re: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub

2015-10-19 Thread ray
> control-alt-f7 gets you back to graphical mode. On Sun, 18 Oct 2015, ray > wrote: The system does not respond to cntrl-alt-f7 Just to clarigy, the system is at the grub prompt in a CSM boot. The BIOS has two settings for function key implementation. I have tried this under both.

Re: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub

2015-10-19 Thread ray
It is my understanding that UEFI is appropriate for systems with HDD > 2TB.

Re: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub

2015-10-18 Thread moxalt
On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 17:17:52 -0700 (PDT), ray wrote: > I have stretch installed on a Toshiba and I am not able to reinstall it. > The first instance was installed using the BIOS mode CSM. I want to > reinstall using UEFI. Why do you want UEFI? You've got a working