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

[Benjamin Drung]

To me it looks like there are two cases:

1) The installer is booted with UEFI and it is probably relative safe to
assume that the installed system will be booted with UEFI. Shouldn't
ubiquity prevent the user to install Ubuntu without ESP in this case
(not just print a warning)? See also
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1893964/comments/16

2) The installer is booted with BIOS. As stated in bug #1893964, we want
to install UEFI support so that the user can switch from BIOS to UEFI or
move the disk into a system with UEFI (and having Ubuntu boot there
without issues). In this case we want let the user know that the
installation won't support UEFI due to the lacking ESP.

Comment
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1893964/comments/39
claims that this kind of warning is not necessary if the user selected
"custom layout", because the user knows what he does in this case.

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Title:
  Improve message for missing ESP on BIOS systems

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in ubiquity source package in Jammy:
  New
Status in ubiquity source package in Kinetic:
  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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