I was bitten by this issue today when I tried to install Ubuntu 11.04. There were some additional wrinkles that are worth mentioning in the context of this bug report. The machine in question is an HP Elite 8200. It comes with Windows 7 64 bit installed, and uses EFI to boot. The system disk has an MSDOS partition table. The EFI partition contains an NTFS filesystem and has an OS type consistent with that (type 7)!
If this setup is typical of HP's desktop machines, the Ubuntu install process is going to need to cope with it whether or not it is standard conforming. I don't know how many HP models are affected by this, or whose firmware is installed on the machine (it's 30 miles away at the moment). I could find out if that is useful information. (If it makes anybody feel any better, Fedora couldn't cope either - but it refused to continue past the partitioning stage.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/811485 Title: EFI SYSTEM PARTITION should be atleast 100 MiB size and formatted as FAT32, not FAT16 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-efi/+bug/811485/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
