Comment 8 for bug 1668148
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| Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote Re: Warning message when installing in EFI mode to a BIOS disk is horribly confusing | #8 |
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(Get the code!)
That's not the point; the system is also warning you that proceeding with the install is potentially breaking your setup if there is a pre-existing partition.
In the past Steve McIntyre changed the code to avoid having this message show up when dealing with a blank disk; plus further updates fixed false-positive issues. We're sufficiently up to date with Debian w.r.t partman-efi already. I think more than changing the text, we need to fix the logic to make absolutely sure it doesn't trigger on blank disks.
As for non-blank disks, perhaps it would be best to fail to install in that case -- the system will surely not boot in UEFI mode, and other bits will fail (such as installing grub-efi).