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

[roland aus köln]

yes, i think the message on missing efi partition is totally misleading.
please change that.

i tried to install ubuntu 22.04 onto a second ssd, whereas the first one
contains windows 10.  (dell precision t3500 workstation)

because of the error message about efi, i thought - okaaayyy..... this
is an efi system and windows probably already being installed in efi
mode....so what...let's add an efi partition...

added the efi partition, installed ubuntu. bang - install of grub on
second disk failed with some weird error message.

ok. second try , i changed boot order for second ssd being booted first.

repeated the whole install procedure.

things worked fine then.


ok.  

then had a long diskussion in our makerspace chat on enhancing the
windows/linux boot experience and was recommended to install reFind
bootloader instead of grub, which i did.

it installed fine and asked if it should add itself to the efi boot.

ok. did that.

rebooted.

no refind bootloader.

just grub.


digging into it....just to find.....t3500 is no efi capable hardware at all, but it's all in bios legacy boot.  


sorry - err - what?

why do you bother me with efi stuff if the system cannot do efi boot ?

i think this is really idiotic.

i think the guy commenting at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1893964/comments/39
is completely right on this:


"The errror is spurious, it gives false info, it pointlessly alarms users about something that is not a problem.

If you let users do their own partitioning then trust them and don't
warn them over something that is not a problem.

The design is wrong. The decision is bogus. The assumptions are
incorrect."

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Title:
  Improve message for missing ESP on BIOS systems

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in ubiquity source package in Jammy:
  New
Status in ubiquity source package in Kinetic:
  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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