Will installation on BIOS systems with no ESP be supported in 21.04?
Bo Berglund
bo.berglund at gmail.com
Tue Apr 13 12:37:31 UTC 2021
On Sat, 10 Apr 2021 17:07:37 +0200, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>It seems that the Ubiquity installer *requires* an EFI System
>Partition (ESP) even if being installed on a BIOS-based system with an
>MBR hard disk.
>
>None of my PC computers use UEFI. I do own 2 with UEFI but I run them
>in legacy BIOS mode with MBR-partitioned disks.
>
>So they do not have UEFI system partitions.
>
Question:
How can I find out if my computer(s) use BIOS/UEFI/both?
I have seen these discussions before and now I worry that I will break/brick an
installation if I run a distribution upgrade...
So what are the caveats here?
--
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden
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