Will installation on BIOS systems with no ESP be supported in 21.04?

Little Girl littlergirl at gmail.com
Sat Apr 10 15:56:58 UTC 2021


Hey there,

Liam Proven wrote:

>I reported a bug that occurs in both Ubuntu Unity 20.10 and Xubuntu
>20.10 and which prevents me from installing either OS on my
>computers:
>
>https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1915152
>
>It seems that the Ubiquity installer *requires* an EFI System
>Partition (ESP) even if being installed on a BIOS-based system with
>an MBR hard disk.

Is this of any use? There are a couple of suggestions in there that
might get you around the issue for now:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1893964

-- 
Little Girl

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