Elementary OS ISO does not provide EFIBoot on a MacBook Pro 11,1
Bug #1446447 reported by
Craig Magina
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #1492256: I can't boot into my system after a fresh install for 0.3.1 in UEFI mode.
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Bug Description
I have two USB disks, one has elementary OS freya 20150411 dd'd to it and the other has Ubuntu 14.04.1 dd'd to it. When I boot them both on my MacBook Pro 11,1; only the Ubuntu disk provides a UEFIBoot entry, the elementary OS disk only provides the Legacy boot option (labeled Windows), which the Ubuntu disk also provides. As a result of this, the installer does not install elementary OS correctly to the system (it fails to install grub-efi), leaving the system in a broken state (it boots to the grub prompt). If you look in the EFI partition, it will not contain any of the expected ubuntu/elementary efi files.
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| Steven Roose (stevenroose) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in elementaryos: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| summary: |
- elementary os iso does not provide EFIBoot on a MacBook Pro 11,1 + Elementary OS ISO does not provide EFIBoot on a MacBook Pro 11,1 |
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| Steven Roose (stevenroose) wrote | #2 |
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Since Elementary often mentions how perfectly suitable it is for MacBooks, this bug is critical. The installer does not work on MacBooks, while the current Ubuntu installer does.
I believe rebasing the installer should do. I also got into GRUB command line after installation, while Ubuntu worked fine.