installing or upgrading to Ubuntu 14.10 kills Boot Manager on ThinkPad W540
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
EFI Boot Manager |
New
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
efibootmgr (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
|
Critical
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
When you install or upgrade to Ubuntu 14.10 on a Lenovo ThinkPad W540 after a reboot the machine prints:
Boot Manager recover from critical error. Some essential variables are absent or corrupted and Boot Manager has restored them from default configuration. Press Esc to continue or F1 to enter Setup.
Then restores to default configuration (eg only Windows boots)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: ubuntu-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Oct 30 13:10:43 2014
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-27 (3 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: ubuntu-
Symptom: release-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-28 (2 days ago)
VarLogDistupgra
Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Critical |
Changed in efibootmgr (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in efibootmgr (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Critical |
Please ignore the files attached by ubuntu-bug, I ran this on another system.