[Bug 1668148] Re: Warning message when installing in EFI mode to a BIOS disk is horribly confusing

[Phillip Susi]

No, no no.  This change is a bad release regression and must be reverted
and bionic respun.

The point of this was to make the message less confusing, not to remove
it.  By removing it and always trying to install grub-efi, it FAILS TO
INSTALL because of the lack of an EFI system partition.


** Tags added: regression-release

** Changed in: partman-efi (Ubuntu)
       Status: Fix Released => Triaged

** Changed in: partman-efi (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Medium => Critical

** Changed in: partman-efi (Ubuntu Artful)
   Importance: Medium => Critical

** Changed in: partman-efi (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) => Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)

** Changed in: partman-efi (Ubuntu Artful)
     Assignee: Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) => Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)

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Title:
  Warning message when installing in EFI mode to a BIOS disk is horribly
  confusing

Status in partman-efi package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in partman-efi source package in Artful:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  When installing in EFI mode to a disk that is partitioned without an
  EFI system partition, you do get a warning message that this may cause
  a problem and suggests that you go back and do a bios mode install
  instead.  The way that it is worded, and the fact that the button to
  switch to a BIOS mode install is labeled "cancel", is very confusing
  and has lead to hundreds, if not thousands of users clicking the OK
  button instead, and proceeding with an install that is doomed to fail.
  This message really needs to be clarified.

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