> [...] I am trying to isntall Ubuntu Desktop on my HP Proliant ML30
> Gen9 [...]
I've never done this, so I know nothing, but...
"trying" _how_, exactly? As usual, showing actual commands with
their actual output can be more helpful than your summary of what it all
means.
Are you following some set of instructions?
> [...] it gives me an error saying there is no EFI partition. [...]
Actual message text? Copy+paste is your friend.
Who partitioned your disk? If you need an EFI partition, then
someone might need to create one. The installer might do it, or you
might need to do it. And then someone needs to populate that EFI
partition with the required files. I'd expect the installer to do that.
(But what do I know?)
When you did your Web search for terms like, say:
ubuntu efi disk partition
what did you find?
> [...] I was able to isntall Ubuntu [...]
Again, _how_, exactly? What, exactly, did you do differently?
(What, exactly, did you _do_?)
> [...] the text that appears on the screen.
I can't see it from here.
Knowing nothing, I can imagine that if the system can't find a
bootable EFI partition on what you think is your Ubuntu disk, then it
might look elsewhere for something bootable, like the LAN, for example.
(But if there's no suitable and cooperative boot server on your LAN,
then that effort would be doomed.)
The solution would be to get the proper stuff installed on the EFI
partition on that disk, to make it bootable on that system. After you
get that EFI partition created.
I've never touched a Proliant (so I know what?), but on an Itanium
system with an EFI interface, there is an EFI shell interface where you
can explore the EFI file system, and get a list of bootable devices on
the system. Knowing nothing, I'd expect something similar to exist on
any system with a [U]EFI console interface. At least one of us might
need to do some reading.
