[Bug 1418706] Re: UEFI: blank drive incorrectly detected as existing BIOS-mode install

[Phillip Susi]

I think you misunderstand the point of this bug Niko.  You did not need
to create a partition on the drive to get the prompt; a completely blank
drive would cause it, and it was not supposed to.  This prompt has been
completely removed in 18.04 however, so I guess that closes this issue.


** Changed in: partman-auto (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Fix Released

** Changed in: partman-efi (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Fix Released

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Fix Released

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Title:
  UEFI: blank drive incorrectly detected as existing BIOS-mode install

Status in partman-auto package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in partman-efi package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in partman-auto package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  When doing a UEFI-mode install using the latest daily Vivid ISO (Thu
  Feb 5), Ubiquity incorrectly concludes that a blank drive contains an
  existing BIOS-mode install (see error in attached screenshot).

  The resulting error dialog is also broken: none of the buttons do any
  thing when clicked: X (close button), "Go Back", "Continue".

  You can seemingly move the install forward by clicking "Continue" in
  the main installer window, but things are still broken somewhere as
  grub isn't getting correctly installed (system is unbootable after the
  install completes).

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