[Bug 1748879] Re: UEFI issue, installer thinks board is uefi, but it is not

[sdowney717]

I solved this by turning off 2.2 tb infinity setting in the bios. The
board does NOT have a UEFI bios. The installer reads off some bios
information somehow and the installer thinks if the infinity mode is on,
that this is a uefi bios. Noway nohow can this board run a uefi system
partition.

Board is an MSI 7596 760GME51
https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/760GME51/Overview

I originally thought it was uefi but it was a fake out, I have a whole thread here and it was finally explained to me.
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=248272&sid=776ccd7425ee9d048bc6ff30404a00a9

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Title:
  UEFI issue, installer thinks board is uefi, but it is not

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  This msi board has  a bios that the installer thinks is a uefi bios,
  but it is not a uefi bios, so the installer tries to install uefi  and
  it can not so the install fails. There is no option to select any
  other install, like a non uefi grub legacy install.

  In the past, I posted to linux forums and finally found something
  about turning off 2.2tb infinity drive setting in the bios.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: ubiquity 18.04.1 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-32.35-generic 4.13.13
  Uname: Linux 4.13.0-32-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.388
  Date: Mon Feb 12 07:22:45 2018
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180212)
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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