![]() PS #2: I think the OP is correct though if the installer doesn't like our choices made it will either delete or reformat to suit itself. I get the boot menu from F12 key on boot. I do have a Puppy USB made from Rufus that boots. What he has posted doesn't belong in this section of the forum. So far as the OP is concerned, he may have chosen the wrong version to meet his purpose. They most likely won't have all of this fixed at release date. It won't even pickup a Puppy Linux install in 40_custom. I have grub setup to boot multiple partitions but they are ignored. I believe the Ubuntu installer is looking at the bios of the machine and doing what it is programmed to do. I don't know how I ended up with the 1Gig esp. the 269meg partition was made from a deleted 14meg bios/boot joined to a 256meg esp. All created by the installer with some help from me. On three systems I have EFI/ESP partitions of 256meg, 269meg and 1gig. We do not change that even if the only OS are : A machine with Windows on it will have the Windows boot files in a FAT32 EFI system partition. Also, my EFI system partition is 537 MB in size and is formatted as FAT 32. I am not sure if you have other OS on that drive. I have tree different installs of Ubuntu on my drive and this is how I did it.īy the way, we do not get a boot menu (Grub) if we have only one operating system on the drive. The boot files for non-Ubuntu operating systems will be left untouched. Existing Ubuntu boot files will be overwritten. With the "format" checkbox unchecked the installer will only put the Ubuntu boot files into the EFI system partition. Otherwise the installer will indeed format the EFI system and remove any EFI boot file s for other operating systems. If you see a checkbox labelled "format" DO NOT tick that checkbox. In my opinion we need to direct the installer to install the boot files into the EFI system partition. You don't format this partition because the installer will properly format it for you. The first partition on the disk should be a 256 meg with the EFI (ESP) flag set after the partition is created. Using the Startup disk installer choose "something else" at the install options. Last edited by zebra2 March 26th, 2023 at 04:09 PM. If you can get this right you will have a easy process and you can try out anything else you dig up later. This way all of your software settings are preserved. On a reinstall you go back to the partition table and only format the /root partition. ![]() The rest of disk /Home.Īll of this is just a suggestion but it will make a reinstall easy if needed. The second partition could be a SWAP partition if you prefer this to a "swapfile". I seems to me that the Ubuntu Installer will only offer as available the boot partitions required by the Bios configuration. I've done six new installs of the 23.04 ISO in the past week with no problem.īest to use a USB created with the Ubuntu Startup Disk app.
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