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Re: "Bug" in Debian Installer?

From David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: "Bug" in Debian Installer?
Date 2023-04-18 11:00 +0200
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On 4/17/23 21:47, David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 17 Apr 2023 at 15:26:58 (-0700), David Christensen wrote:

>> I have never seen a document that completely and accurately explains,
>> in computer engineering and science terms, the design and
>> implementation of the boot processes for Debian (or FreeBSD, or
>> Windows, or macOS) for all the possible combinations of BIOS, UEFI,
>> MBR, and GPT; including work-arounds such as "protective MBR", "BIOS
>> Boot Partition", etc..  If anyone knows of such, please provide a
>> citation.
> 
> You might start with:
> 
>    https://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/whatsgpt.html


Thank you for the link.


>> I will expand my statement to: d-i should inform the user and obtain
>> their permission before making changes to a computer.
> 
> As in "Permission to break an egg, sir"? Did not pressing Enter in
> reply to "Install" imply something?


d-i modifying a disk without explicit notification and permission is 
unacceptable.


d-i modifying NVRAM without explicit notification and permission is 
unacceptable.


Do you contribute to d-i?


David

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