Ubuntu
ubiquity package

  1. Bug #1962470
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 1962470

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Michael Lueck (mlueck) wrote :

With the same Xubuntu 20220402 Daily jammy-desktop-2022-04-02-amd64.iso I thought to do an automatic partitioning installation. I knew I would not end up with a XFS formatted root partition, but a booting system with gpt partition table would be better than a non-booting system.

The installer created the following partitions:

sda1 1MB BIOS BOOT
sda2 500MB EFI System
sda3 1TB / ext4

So, an additional partition my working Xubuntu 20.04.2 system did not require... the 1MB BIOS BOOT partition. I had high hopes... Nope! Still will not boot from the HDD. I mentioned in my failed installation test results I would update this same defect case with the results of the failed auto partition installation attempt.

The only way I can make Xubuntu 22.04 boot on this system is to manually bring up Gparted, create a blank MSDOS partition table, and then a single 1TB / xfs partition... it boots just fine with that legacy configuration... which I do not install as the BIOS is new enough to support UEFI Smart Boot... which I have that disabled.

Test system is based on a Intel DG33BU motherboard and Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 CPU