[Bug 1983719] Re: Improve message for missing ESP on BIOS systems

[Jeremie Tamburini]

Let's say that the message still makes sense if a user is setting up a GPT table on a old computer with old BIOS.
In that case a message may "suggest" to create the ESP so that if your computer is broken, you can move the disk even on a modern computer with UEFI.

As far as I know it shouldn't be useful at all with old ms-dos(MBR)
partition table... if I'm not wrong.

I think the cleaner solution might be to set specific messages depending
on the user's hardware:

1- UEFI ---> EFI is needed!
2- BIOS with GPT partition ---> EFI is suggested. In case of problems you can also move the disk to a computer with UEFI
3- BIOS with MBR ---> no message

Alternatively in a less "elegant" but easier to implement way, the
current message could be replaced with 1st and 2nd messages merged
together. It might look verbose...

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Title:
  Improve message for missing ESP on BIOS systems

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Bug 1893964 was fixed to allow continuing if no ESP is configured, but
  the message is still very EFI specific and does not make sense on a
  system that has no EFI (your system will fail to boot, etc).

  It should be worded softer, probably.

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