Ubiquity proceeds with installation even if EFI partition is absent

[Biswarup Ray]

I recently installed 13.04 final beta(Gnome,amd64 version) on my EFI enabled desktop. This being my first installation of an OS supporting EFI, I was not aware of the requirement of a separate EFI partition. I booted the pen drive in EFI mode and selected the "manual partitioning" option to reuse my existing partitions. The installer proceeded with the installation without indicating that there was any problem and the installation was otherwise correctly done except for the EFI part. I discovered this problem only after when the system refused to boot. I then re-installed the whole system again after converting the existing non-GPT partition table to a GPT partition table and creating the EFI partition.

I am proposing that a warning system be included in Ubiquity, which will warn users when the EFI partition is absent.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]