Linux Mint 20 insists on EFI boot? Why?
by steveis2 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#559RH)
Hi,
There are three disks on my PC one for data and one for win10 and one for Linux. The system duel boots between LM19.3 and win10.
I was in the process of installing LM20 onto the disk with LM19.3 on it when at the point at which I clicked the install button a warning came up saying that no EFI partition was in place and the system might not boot if I continued at my own risk. I decided not to continue.
When I installed LM19.3 there was no such question or warning. I was able to install grub on the disk I was installing LM19.3 to and then pick it up via bcd on booting up. I seem to remember a similar situation quite a while back with an earlier version of Mint but don't know what the solution was. All my disks are MBR and I don't want to have to use EFI to boot Mint. If I were to 'continue at my own risk' I think I'd end up with a mangled disk.
Is there a solution that anyone can suggest that avoids the use of anything EFI?
Regards Steve
There are three disks on my PC one for data and one for win10 and one for Linux. The system duel boots between LM19.3 and win10.
I was in the process of installing LM20 onto the disk with LM19.3 on it when at the point at which I clicked the install button a warning came up saying that no EFI partition was in place and the system might not boot if I continued at my own risk. I decided not to continue.
When I installed LM19.3 there was no such question or warning. I was able to install grub on the disk I was installing LM19.3 to and then pick it up via bcd on booting up. I seem to remember a similar situation quite a while back with an earlier version of Mint but don't know what the solution was. All my disks are MBR and I don't want to have to use EFI to boot Mint. If I were to 'continue at my own risk' I think I'd end up with a mangled disk.
Is there a solution that anyone can suggest that avoids the use of anything EFI?
Regards Steve