[Bug 1915152] Re: Installation of Ubuntu Unity 20.10 always fails if there is no EFI partition

2021-04-10 Thread Liam Proven
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1893964 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1893964 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1893964 Installation of Ubuntu Groovy with manual partitioning without an EFI System Partition fails on 'grub-install /dev/sda' even on non-UEFI systems

[Bug 1915152] Re: Installation of Ubuntu Unity 20.10 always fails if there is no EFI partition

2021-02-12 Thread Liam Proven
Confirmed and reproduced in Xubuntu 20.10 as well. This issue is _not_ confined to Ubuntu Unity and is also present in an official remix. Steps taken to try to resolve it: * updated system BIOS (machine is a Lenovo Thinkpad W500; was on 3.18, now on 3.23, latest) -> no change • tried 2 different