20.10 wants an EFI system partition even on a BIOS system

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 at 23:29, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
>
> I do not know whether this is of any use to you, but I believe that, on
> two of my computers, the installations of 20.10 are in the BIOS sector(?).

Currently, almost all x86 PCs still support BIOS emulation, BIOS-style
MBR disks and booting from GRUB in the boot sector, traditional/legacy
BIOS-style.

There is or was a plan for this to end, though:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-were-ending-all-legacy-bios-support-by-2020/

> So, I wonder whether, as a workaround, you could install an earlier
> version of Ubuntu, using the BIOS system of installation, and, perform a
> version upgrade to 20.10, and, whether that would work for you.

Yes, that would almost certainly work.

The issue is that Ubuntu Unity is very new, and its developer is still
refining it. His name is Rudra B. Saraswat and he was only 10 years
old when he started, so I am prepared to cut him a lot of slack! He
advised people not to upgrade but to reinstall, as he has removed some
components and the result would be a smaller, cleaner system.

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