Regarding manual partitioning on EFI systems
Dmitrijs Ledkovs
dmitrij.ledkov at ubuntu.com
Fri Apr 19 12:40:52 UTC 2013
On 19 April 2013 11:59, Biswarup Ray <biswarupr at gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently installed 13.04 final beta(Gnome version) on my Efi enabled
> desktop. I selected "manual partitioning" option during installation. This
> being my first installation of an OS supporting Efi, I was not aware of the
> requirement of a separate EFI partition. The installer proceeded with the
> installation without indicating that there was any problem and the
> installation was otherwise correctly done except the Efi part. I discovered
> this problem only after when the system refused to boot. I then re-installed
> the whole system again after creating the EFI partition(I was not sure
> chroot would work).
>
> I am proposing that a warning system be included in the installer, which
> will warn users if the EFI partition is absent during installation.
>
Which image have you used? i386 or amd64?
Regards,
Dmitrijs.
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