Re: Will installation on BIOS systems with no ESP be supported in 21.04?

2021-04-17 Thread Liam Proven
On Fri, 16 Apr 2021 at 17:51, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > Sorry about this. As you can see from the tag changes, the bug was imported to > JIRA on Oct 29[1], but then it seems to have gotten "lost" in the backlog. > > Probably because it was still 6 months away from being urgent, it eventually

Re: Will installation on BIOS systems with no ESP be supported in 21.04?

2021-04-16 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 11:55:57PM +0200, Liam Proven wrote: > Today I have received notifications that someone has taken over the > bug and submitted a fix, but it took threads on here, on Discourse and > a post to Hacker News to get some action. This is to me an astonishing > failure in bug triag

Re: Will installation on BIOS systems with no ESP be supported in 21.04?

2021-04-16 Thread Sai Vinoba
On Sat, 10 Apr 2021 17:07:37 +0200, Liam Proven wrote: > I reported a bug that occurs in both Ubuntu Unity 20.10 and Xubuntu > 20.10 and which prevents me from installing either OS on my computers: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1915152 > > It seems that the Ubiquit

Re: Will installation on BIOS systems with no ESP be supported in 21.04?

2021-04-16 Thread Liam Proven
On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 at 19:08, Sai Vinoba wrote: > > Hi Liam, > I just want to know if it is not possible for you to allocate around 200-500M > and mark it as 'EFI System Partition' as the installer is requesting? It > doesn't require major re-partitioning, doesn't have to be the first > partiti

Will installation on BIOS systems with no ESP be supported in 21.04?

2021-04-11 Thread Liam Proven
I reported a bug that occurs in both Ubuntu Unity 20.10 and Xubuntu 20.10 and which prevents me from installing either OS on my computers: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1915152 It seems that the Ubiquity installer *requires* an EFI System Partition (ESP) even if being in