subiquity

weird 2M first partition

Bug #1687650 reported by Dustin Kirkland  on 2017-05-02

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	subiquity	Fix Released	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

I got this weird partitioning layout, that doesn't seem great.

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote on 2017-05-02:

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Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote on 2017-05-03:

ubuntu by default does align partitioning to 2MB boundary to be 4k drives friendly, and accommodate bootloaders that spillover the MBR (like latest grub2, if enough core modules are enabled).

Maybe specifying that this is an alignment buffer would make sense, or e.g. not showing it at all.

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Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote on 2017-05-03:

This is not it at all though. This is an BIOS BOOT partition for booting GPT drives in BIOS mode. I think we should still fix up how we present this to the user and avoid forcing them to create it for their systems to boot properly, but I'm not sure yet if the best thing is to hide it completely and "lie", or show it and be a little confusing (or finding some balance between the two and showing it in some very obvious way and make sure it's clear it's not to be touched).

Changed in subiquity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → High

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Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson) wrote on 2017-09-13:

I suspect this and https://bugs.launchpad.net/subiquity/+bug/1679857 are duplicates in the sense that any work we do in this area will close both bugs.

I'm still not really sure how to handle this though.

affects:

subiquity (Ubuntu) → subiquity

Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson) on 2018-04-13