[Bug 1687650] Re: weird 2M first partition

2017-09-13 Thread Michael Hudson-Doyle
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. ** Package changed: subiquity (Ubuntu) => subiquity -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1687650] Re: weird 2M first partition

2017-05-03 Thread Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
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 an

[Bug 1687650] Re: weird 2M first partition

2017-05-03 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
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. -- Yo