Re: more newbie-friendly dual-boot instructions?

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On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 12:18 PM Adam Williamson
<adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2020-12-07 at 13:49 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > How confident are we that if they'd picked guided partitioning, it would
> > have Just Worked? I am happy to gently say "you're getting a more
> > complicated experience because you picked the option labeled 'advanced
> > custom'", but I don't want to do that if the guided option won't work for
> > some reason.
>
> In that particular case, file under "not very", because it seems odd
> that what the user describes themselves as doing didn't work. As
> described it *should* have worked.

They didn't describe the Advanced-Custom layout at all. I get no
indication they chose the existing ESP or creating a new one, and
assigning it to /boot/efi. Based on the error message, I'm supremely
confident they didn't do that. And that automatic/guided path would
have worked.


-- 
Chris Murphy
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