Ubuntu
ubiquity package

  1. Bug #1983719
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1983719

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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote :

To me it looks like there are two cases:

1) The installer is booted with UEFI and it is probably relative safe to assume that the installed system will be booted with UEFI. Shouldn't ubiquity prevent the user to install Ubuntu without ESP in this case (not just print a warning)? See also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1893964/comments/16

2) The installer is booted with BIOS. As stated in bug #1893964, we want to install UEFI support so that the user can switch from BIOS to UEFI or move the disk into a system with UEFI (and having Ubuntu boot there without issues). In this case we want let the user know that the installation won't support UEFI due to the lacking ESP.

Comment https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1893964/comments/39 claims that this kind of warning is not necessary if the user selected "custom layout", because the user knows what he does in this case.