I am installing 20.04 to a new SSD. I already have 18.04 installed on its own drive which does not have an EFI partition. During the installation process, I selected "Something else", New Partition Table, Primary, EXT-4 and selected "/" as the mount point. When I continued I got the following no…

Is EFI Partition really needed?

pavlos_kairis 27 October 2020 00:33 2

If you started the install in UEFI mode, you will need an EFI partition. But, if you started the install in Legacy mode, you don't need it.