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

[Bo Berglund]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 13:48:48 +0100, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com>
wrote:

>Hi Bo,
>
>On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 at 13:39, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Question:
>> How can I find out if my computer(s) use BIOS/UEFI/both?
>>
>Personally I check to see if /sys/firmware/efi exists. (I've looked it up
>and https://itsfoss.com/check-uefi-or-bios/#linux agrees with me which is
>nice).
>

On both of my at the moment running Ubuntu machines:
$ ll /sys/firmware/
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 0 2021-03-19 12:29 acpi
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 0 2021-04-13 15:06 dmi
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 0 2021-04-13 15:06 memmap

One is an HP Elitebook 8440w Workstation and the other is an older PC I
inherited from my mother when she died in 2016.
It was quite old at that time.

So no "efi" in sight!
Does this mean I cannot go above 20.04 on these?

I have another HP 8560w, which is a year or two younger than the 8440w, but it
is not running at the moment.


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden