[xubuntu-users] xubuntu-users Digest, Vol 207, Issue 6

[Carl Snyder]

I actually have few problems with requiring an EFI partition. My problem is
with the larger and larger /boot/EFI requirements which are not specified
in the minimum requirements for installation. I originally allocated 256M
for the EFI partition, but the present requirements for the same multi-boot
Linux machine is over 1G allocated on my 1.5T HDD. This with the 2-4G
requirement for a swap partition if you have less than 16G RAM reduces the
configuration flexibility.

Again, these larger /boot/EFI and swap requirements should be spelled out
as minimum requirements, not discovered after errors in the installation
process for manual partitioning.

I recognize that I am a member of a diminishing group with my older, legacy
boot machine, but one of the 'features' of Linux was that it provided
support for older machines. Since I am one of those who started with 8-bit
machines pre-Linux, I know how fast technology changes, and I am NOT
wanting or expecting AI enhancements for 32-bit machines.

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> On Mon, 27 May 2024 at 12:57, Carl Snyder <carlwsnyder at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I have noted that many distribution's 2024 installers want your machine
> to have already prepared /boot/EFI partitions which are sized > 1G or you
> receive errors at random places in the install process.
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> This is a known bug in Ubuntu:
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1893964
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> I have talked to the company about it, and its position is that this
> is intended behaviour so that the same bootable drive will work on
> both BIOS and UEFI computers, or on a single machine regardless of
> whether the firmware is configured to "UEFI boot", "legacy boot", or
> both in either order.
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