See bug #1770966 for someone complaining that they are no longer able to
install Ubuntu because this question was removed ( and the automatic
choice made to stick with an efi mode install instead of switching to
bios mode ).
Also see the hundreds of apport reports that have been filed since 18.04
Please pay attention:
The choice that lead to a bios mode install was the correct one that
worked. Choosing to use efi mode is the one that failed and crashed the
install. Now it always uses efi mode, and so always crashes the
install. It must be changed to take the bios mode install instead.
The question allowed a user who is also a mind reader and knew what the
options meant (since the actual text of the message was useless for
understanding this) to switch to a bios mode install.
The fact that this message was shown at all, ever, was a bug elsewhere
in the installer. This will be
The message allowed the user to switch to a bios mode install of grub
instead of trying to continue with EFI mode, which would fail, and crash
the install. Now there is no way to avoid the installation failure and
it 100% crashes.
Removing the message is one thing, but the default choice of
We are absolutely not reverting this. The message was dropped because
it was USELESS to an end user.
The reason the user is *presented* the message is because there are bugs
in ubiquity, which is giving the user guided installation options which
will NEVER work.
We are fixing this in ubiquity
No, no no. This change is a bad release regression and must be reverted
and bionic respun.
The point of this was to make the message less confusing, not to remove
it. By removing it and always trying to install grub-efi, it FAILS TO
INSTALL because of the lack of an EFI system partition.
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This bug was fixed in the package partman-efi - 71ubuntu2
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partman-efi (71ubuntu2) bionic; urgency=medium
* Do not ask the user about forcing UEFI installation if there are BIOS
compatibility mode installed systems as those will still be bootable from
grub if we proceed
Go for it; the confusion from this message is greater than the benefit
to the very tiny set of users who might run into issues this is meant to
catch.
ie. automated partitioning will already DTRT; and people who write their
own partitions and don't add an ESP are presumed to already know what
After experimenting with possible scenarios with the current partman-efi
(2 systems on kvm - first one installed in BIOS mode, second in UEFI), I
currently propose two courses of action:
1) Removing the warning prompt completely and always continuing in UEFI
mode. During my testing on bionic it
It should be understood that when fixed, this message also needs to
stand alone. The user has two choices before them, "yes, force" and
"no, don't force". The system must not assume that the user remembers
anything about what was done before in the installer, or knows what will
come next when
Here is the current message:
Force UEFI installation?
This machine's firmware has started the installer in UEFI mode but
it looks like there may be existing operating systems already
installed using "BIOS compatibility mode". If you
continue to install Debian in UEFI mode, it might be
That's not the point; the system is also warning you that proceeding
with the install is potentially breaking your setup if there is a pre-
existing partition.
In the past Steve McIntyre changed the code to avoid having this message
show up when dealing with a blank disk; plus further updates
I'll reject this from the queue given Steve's concern. You can talk
about it out of band and accept that if appropriate, or upload a new
version.
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If we're going to break string freeze and diverge from Debian, could we
at least drop the word "Debian" here? s/install Debian/install/
(That change is also appropriate to forward upstream, AFAICS)
Also, I don't find the new text particularly clear either and would not
recommend breaking string
Looks like the string is translated. Is that a concern?
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Warning message when installing in EFI mode to a BIOS disk is horribly
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Title:
Warning message when installing in EFI mode to a BIOS disk is horribly
confusing
To manage
** Changed in: partman-efi (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)
** Also affects: partman-efi (Ubuntu Artful)
Importance: Medium
Assignee: Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)
Status: Triaged
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