[Bug 1983719] Re: Improve message for missing ESP on BIOS systems

Julian Andres Klode 1983719 at bugs.launchpad.net
Sun Aug 7 09:58:59 UTC 2022


EFI system partitions work fine on MBR partition tables, there's even a
registered type for it. Many systems even will just allow booting from
any partition they can read, it does not even need to be flagged ESP but
can just be a random FAT one. Others need a bootable flag on MBR
partition.

Fairly variable.

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Title:
  Improve message for missing ESP on BIOS systems

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Bug 1893964 was fixed to allow continuing if no ESP is configured, but
  the message is still very EFI specific and does not make sense on a
  system that has no EFI (your system will fail to boot, etc).

  It should be worded softer, probably.

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